'Sweetheart' says, "It's a lot of American B.S."
that must be the ‘disorganized speech’ the psychologist referred to...
Oh, but wait—the court whore ‘psychologist’ Xavier Amador never examined Moussaoui. Oh. Well, then.
Granted, Moussaoui had an horrific, perhaps schizophrenogenic childhood. Granted, there is a family history of mental illness. Granted there was, in his native Frants, racism. Let’s also grant that in any examination based on current APA-approved theory any randomly chosen Islamofascist would certainly meet the criteria for a diagnosis of paranoia and extreme thought disorder, if not outright schzophrenia.
Was a career as a terrorist the inevitable outcome for Moussaoui? No: his brother became an engineering teacher. Was Moussaoui the ideal prey for Islamofascist recruiters? I’d say so.
Alltogether, the decision here is how, and how much, will we, as a culture, hold Moussaoui—and others—personally responsible for taking up with bad company and voluntarily buying into a load of hateful horse-hockey.
from DilbertBlog: I also wonder if showing respect for all beliefs is causing more problems than it’s avoiding. The only thing that keeps most people from acting on their absurd beliefs is the fear that other people will treat them like frickin’ retards. Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. At least that’s what I tell people after I mock them. Or to put it another way, I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.
“Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity.”
May I use that? Scathing, I love it.
Posted by tony on 04/19/06 at 04:30 AMI love it, too, Tony—Scott Adams said it.
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I think it deserves spreading around!Posted by Claire on 04/19/06 at 09:24 AM
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