Re: PERU: The Tale of Killing "Leftists"

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You (Peter Burns) wrote:

>2) He makes the unwarranted assumption that what
>follows certain actions in time was produced or
>brought about (at least in part) by those actions.
>This is the 'post hoc ergo propter hoc' fallacy.
>
>It is quite possible that, hypothetically speaking,
>Sendero could achieve power *in spite of* many of
>the actions of their cadres.  For instance, killing
>leftists might make it more difficult for Sendero
>to attain power.  In the event they do so, this
>would not then justify, even on the most extreme
>revolutionary-consequentialist view, the killing
>of those leftists, because on this hypothesis,
>the victory of the Sendero revolution would not
>have been furthered by those killings.

    Carlos:

    Is nothing like an depossition of a jesuit when they are right

    Comradely,
    cARLOS




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