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From: steinber@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Louis Steinberg)
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Subject: Re: Terrorism Inc.
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By the way, I think the French attack on the Green Peace ship was
evil, but not terrorism.  There is a strong tendency today to take a
word like "Nazi" or "Communist" or "terrorist" that correctly applies
to a particular kind of evil, and use it indiscriminately as a synonym
for "bad".  This is particularly done by people who are afraid that if
they describe accurately what kind of "bad" they are referring to,
their listener might not find it so bad.  But in any case, whether
due to deliberate deception or just fuzzy thinking, this kind of
watering down of specific evils into the general "bad" is something we
must resist because it reduces our ability to distinguish between
evils, set priorities, and take actions against a specific evil that are
appropriate for that evil.