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Originally Posted by alexamenos
no it's not the same. it's not the same in exactly the same way not-raping a fourteen year old girl and only raping her a little bit are two very different things.
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knock, knock, mcfly, helloo!. I never said there was no difference between 0 and 1. There is, of course, a perfectly logical reason to draw that difference here. But if you think that's the only place to draw a difference, then you are shortsighted and mistaken. And if you think that's the best place to draw the difference between "left" and "right" political ideologies, you are lunatic fringe. Most of us draw a distinction at a much more useful place, as in which group wants to tax us more than the other group, and which group wants to tax us less than the other group. That dividing line is actually useful, having coincidence with tons more other dividing lines, and falling roughly along lines by which votes can make a difference in our lives.
Meanwhile, you are trying to tell everybody that there's no difference between taxing 1 percent and taxing 99 percent - it's all left. Or by your grotesque analogy, you argue that there is no difference between raping a 14 year old girl and raping and killing a 14 year old girl. You've drawn your distinction at a point that is entirely useless.