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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
1. You've failed to recognize my metonymic of the use of the word country to denote places of undue power and importance. It is not ignoring the existence of every country to speak of the need to influence the most negatively influential. The worst effects of the most negatively powerful comprise the point.
2. You're setting up ridiculously literal controls for a rhetorical parallel between the population/political machinery of a corrupt country and the comparatively smaller numbers in a political group within it. You might as well be responding to the phrase, "The grass is always greener" by saying, "No, it isn't. It's always the same color."
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What you said was:
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Nations are immense behemoths erected by vast consensus and brutal manipulation. Anonymous are simply a bunch of people like us.
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You were replying to my post where I said "some governments". I wasn't talking about large countries in particular and I didn't see why you would be unless you don't consider smaller countries to be nations. Governments are even smaller than the people that they represent and can possibly be smaller than Anonymous (if they are a few hundreds in most countries the numbers of the group would be in the order of thousands).
If I wasn't clear: I wasn't limiting torture practices only to large and/or powerful countries so there wasn't any reason for me to assume that you were using the word "nations" to denote that particular group. You might as well be responding to the phrase "No, it isn't. It's always the same color." by saying "Well, you should have understood from my use of the word <greener> that I was talking about that patch of grass by the tree."
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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
So you found the actions of Anon to be perfectly ok then? We - as members of the human race - should feel no need to hold back when dealing with kids...vicious things that they are.
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No, but considering the stories about the age of those that joined the group, it is possible that the actions were taken by kids of the same age as the girl since they were behaving like she did. So you could say that I am criticizing them as much as I'm criticizing her.