And by the same token if you feel bad for the people incinerated in Dresden, you're a large scale Nazi sympathiser. #fallacyofequivocation https://twitter.com/onlineman420/status/909856772764192768 …
"That's what the words mean" - he's just saying feeling sympathy for a Nazi is being a Nazi sympathizer. What do you think he's saying?
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OK, true, that's pretty stupid. But that's not a widely held sentiment and I doubt he thought through the meaning of his words (ironically).
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I didn't think he'd mean it on reflection. That was the point I was trying to make. I'm aware you might think punching ok, torture bad! :)
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People are quick to declare sweeping general principles based on a specific situation that hardly tests boundaries. 1/2
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Usually more likely that they misstated the principle than that they actually apply the principle in egregious ways. 2/2
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Not sure in this case. Think he's playing a rhetorical game based on equivocating between "Nazi sympathizer" - somebody who feels bad for a
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person who is a Nazi (where the feeling bad is not motivated by anything to do with the person's Nazism); and Nazi sympathizer - somebody
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who sympathizes with the beliefs, values, aims of Nazism, and accordingly might feel sympathy with Nazis. Fallacy of equivocation basically.
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