• wicked@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Your original argument was that this conflict was opened by kidnapping the head of a state.

    Faced with a counterpoint, you’re arguing it’s not like a much more serious invasion.

    True, but that’s not invalidating the fact that it was not opened by a kidnapping.

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      4 days ago

      And?

      Please point me to a single comment I’ve made on any post in the last 24 hours that indicates, in any way, that I don’t consider the arbitrary abduction of the head of a foreign government to be a serious breach of international law.

      You cannot.

      What I won’t let slide without argument are false equivalencies, half-truths, or misrepresentations of law.

      When horrible shit happens is the time for more accuracy and specificity, not less.

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        4 days ago

        Moving the goalposts is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded.