I pretty much agree with the last two posts. That is not to condone the actions of a certain little prick. It concerns our reactions to those actions.
My first reaction to this line by Bob:
was that it appears to be based on assumptions, since no one knows.No one knows how many lives will be saved because of the moral courage of a President to make a hard decision he reasonably believed to be within the law. No one knows how many lives will be lost because of the moral cowardice of a guy believing himself to be above the law in the release of this protected information.
If we flip those assumptions the line could read as follows:
No one knows how many lives will be lost because of the moral courage of a President to make a hard decision he reasonably believed to be within the law. No one knows how many lives will be saved because of the moral cowardice of a guy believing himself to be above the law in the release of this protected information.
I’m not saying I make these flipped assumptions (I don’t). My point is that assumptions such as these lead to loaded and primed statements and questions that may lead us down a path we should perhaps not be going down.
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