Braonan said:
darkknight9 said:
Braonan said:
YOU claimed we should thank Canada for the creation of peacekeepers. Cut and paste as many forensic or english texts as you like, you can't pick and choose aspects of your work to represent. Either you did it, or you didn't.
If you can't take the criticism that you may have enabled international slackers and criminals to rape and pillage at will then you're a lot closer to the American border metaphorically and literally then you'd probably like to admit.
Just a reminder:
Braonan said:
Now for things everybody ought to thank Canada for:
The UN's Universal Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Solving the Suez Canal Crisis, while creating peacekeepers.
Peacekeepers.
No thanks.
See, even in your last response your still committing logical fallacies. I just happen to be four months away from my PHD in practical ethics; so here's the website that covers logical fallacies fairly well, even for the special. <http://nobeliefs.com/fallacies.htm>
By the way, I just happen to attend a little known American University, of which Peter Singer is on the panel for my thesis. You may of heard of Princeton.
Congratulations, I am less than a year away from beating the odds and completing my undergrad in materials science on my way to the University of Minnesota for a PhD in Materials engineering. An education is a valuable thing. I'm personally doing this having started very late in the process (Cripes, I'm almost 40) and I'm hoping to make my defense within five years. As a post doc, I have no idea where I'll go given that I need to stay within a certain distance of my son (and his mother whom he lives with half time). I hope that he goes on to college also. Earlier than I did even. But if he does or doesn't I hope that he learns early that if he's going to take pride in something or attach his name directly to something, or attempt to take pride in his heritage, land, or values that he understands he is responsible for those actions. If he makes a product that harms the public with his name on it, he gets sued. If he wants to beam that he solved a problem, he shouldn't feel bad when someone points out a different way of doing it. And for the love of Pete if he wants to put a chip directly on his shoulder for what HE THINKS others should thank his nation for, he better not get upset when someone points out some of the very criminal things done under the flag of his pride.
Peacekeepers are an abomination on this planet. Royal Canadian guys? Pretty damn cool. Both the ones I've had the pleasure to meet and the ones I get to see on the tube on the weekends.
Formal demands of forensics and grammar are fine for framing arguments and discussions when required. We appear to be a little less formal here. Had you said you thought the peacekeepers were created by Canada and you thought they were neat, etc. I probably wouldn't have cared. But to tell the world that we should thank Canada for them? No. Perhaps if it had remained a strictly Canadian affair it would be respectable. UNfortunately for the worlds children who have been raped... its not.
Incidentally, I have heard of Singer. I am afraid that all I can remember at the moment is that he was approving of sex with animals as long as it was 'mutually beneficial' to both human and animal. I *know* there's more to him than that, but unfortunately that's the part that stuck.