Duty of the state
Saturday 10th January 2009, 08:23 pm by Michael Shilliday
On the soundtrack of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a John Cleese sketch about logic.
…given the premise, ‘all fish live underwater’ and ‘all mackerel are fish’, my wife will conclude, not that ‘all mackerel live underwater’, but that ‘if she buys kippers it will not rain’, or that ‘trout live in trees’, or even that ‘I do not love her any more.’ This she calls ‘using her intuition’. I call it ‘crap’, and it gets me very irritated because it is not logical.
On Facebook at the moment there is a photograph entitled “ISRAEL DOESN’T TARGET CHILDREN?? 2″ which depicts two very badly injured, if not dead, children. The caption reads:
PLS TAG AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN SO THAT PEOPLE CAN WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH OF THE BABY KILLING ISRAEL.. GO TO THE MAIN ALBUM THERE ARE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE PICTURES
Israel takes action to defend it’s citizens from terrorist attack by Hamas. As a result of this, innocent people are injured and die. This does not mean that Israel targets children. It does not mean that Israel is a bloodthirsty regime of terror. It means that the Israeli state is exercising it’s duty to protect it’s citizens and restore the state monopoly on the use of force.
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