Hitchens responds to critics

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Tue Sep 25 12:05:41 PDT 2001


Below in first sentence, I meant "that asking for explanations is equivalent to not being sympathetic to victims' pain, grief, etc., is now no longer a relavent argument."

steve


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> I should note that the argument that asking for explanations is now no
> longer relevant. Parents, relatives, and friends of the dead have also now
> made their opposition to more war and called for a critical examination
> (or explanations as it were) of the conditions that increased the
> likelihood of WTC's occuring and will increase their likelihood of
> occurring again. Now, either these relatives are insensitive to their own
> pain, which would be a remarkably weak and arrogant argument to make, or
> the link between explanation and insensitivty that some have made (with
> ulterior motives that I don't believe Nathan has) is no longer existent or
> interesting.
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