Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am not the moral arbiter. > > I don't support your morals, but I don't prohibit them either. > > I'm simply expressing my opinion of your behaviour - making a point in > a free environment. > > And, as if to make my point for me, you use a dictionary quote instead > of an argument yet again. You and I both know full well you chose the > word "surrender" in the context of your implication at the start of > the original thread that they should have "blown them out of the > water", not in the context of Merriam Webster. Morally bereft style of > argumentation IMHO. > > No-one commenting in the press so far as I can see is suggesting those > service people did anything wrong in being taken captive. They did not > choose to be taken captive - they did not surrender from a position of > freedom - once captive they did the sensible thing, from every > perspective - They did not cooperate to save their own skins and > weaken the position of their colleagues in theatre, they offered no > resistance (once captured) to avoid dragging millions of innocents > unnecessarily into a dangerous international incident. > > Get back to the subject of this thread. > Morality of selling their stories.
Ask a simple question about how the Brits view the selling of the sailors' stories and you get lectures and name calling. Oh, well . . . ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
