It's a valid point and agrees with my lay out of when it is and is not appropriate to
assert cross-trophic attributes. Sometimes you are your fist. Sometimes you are not your
fist. Unless one makes their full argument like you're implying with the "punch in
the face" function, including what replaceable function you're relying on, it's
lazy, at best, to assume one way or the other.
But in the case of Sarbajit's rhetoric. He knows full well that the US
government is not a singular thing, at least as much as I know the Indian
government is not well-balled up into the singular Modi. I'd buy the laziness
from an intellectually challenged right winger at the pub, but not from
Sarbajit.
On 7/12/22 15:28, Jon Zingale wrote:
I think I disagree with Glen here. When the accumulated meatiness of "my" fist meets the face of the bloke
next to "me" at the bar, I see no problem with him blaming "me" for the violence, whether or not
there is a consistent formal theory of "me" for him to found his judgement upon. It is an abuse of rhetoric,
IMO, to then go on to explain to the bloke why I couldn't have punched him.
as far as:
"""
Seen from New Delhi (India), a distance of 8,000 miles, the US of A appears
as a monolithic ("One nation under a Christian God") capitalist nation
regardless of which of your 2 interchangeable parties are in power in
Washington. For us Trump is the same as Biden, Farid Zakaria is no
different from Tucker Carlson.
"""
Yeah, some of us here feel that way too. I am always sorry to hear that this
kind of violence is being perpetrated around the globe. It doesn't take much
work to uncover some truly inhumane actions carried out or supported by actors
at all levels of American hegemony.
--
ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ
-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom
https://bit.ly/virtualfriam
to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/
1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
