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Reply #397: You still haven't answered the question: Which group is elevated above another? [View All]

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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-04-07 09:19 PM
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397. You still haven't answered the question: Which group is elevated above another?
Where are these mythical "raceless, genderless, countryless, born nowhere, asexual" beings that are being demoted to less important status?

The linchpin of your argument is that this elevates some classes of people above others.

But you never tell us WHO is left out of a specific type of crime.

Are you REALLY going to claim that a couple of kids who toilet paper a teacher's house committed the same crime as a group of neo-nazis painting swastika's on the door of a synagogue?

On the face of it, they are both simple vandalism. So we are left with:

A) A couple of kids facing hard time for a relatively harmless prank.

B) A group of Neo-Nazi's getting a couple of hours of community service for terrorizing an entire community.

Is that really the argument you want to make?
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