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chris manion’s apparently lost it. this post is worse than on its face, for he used to know aristotelian logic.

Pride Goeth Before The Fall

Posted by Christopher Manion on May 16, 2010 02:42 PM

The word “tragedy,” properly employed, denotes a particular genre of drama or literature that features a main character defined by one dictionary as a person “impelled by moral weakness or psychological maladjustment” – or hubris — “exaggerated pride or self-confidence.”

So I find it interesting that a Detroit police chief calls the shooting of seven-year-old Aiyana Jones by a SWAT team member “a tragedy of unspeakable magnitude to Aiyana’s parents.”

So Aiyana’s parents are the ones “impelled by moral weakness or psychological maladjustment… and exaggerated pride or self-confidence”?

egads. yes, chris, completely ignore that the dominant modern definition of tragedy in common nondramatic use is — fucking obviously — “2 a : a disastrous event : calamity b : misfortune”

there’s a term for what you’ve done there, chris, and i’ll let you provide it since you should know it better than i do. hint: it’s a named fallacy from sophistici elenchi. jesus christ, talk about a stretch for drama.

so on to the abcnews article linked above. more language abuse:

A sleeping 7-year-old girl was shot and killed when an officer’s gun went off while Detroit police were searching a duplex for a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, a police official said.
[...]
[Assistant Chief Ralph] Godbee said officers with the department’s Special Response Team set off a flash grenade as they entered the apartment with their guns drawn about 12:40 a.m. Sunday with a warrant to look for a suspect in the Friday slaying of a 17-year-old boy.

The lead officer encountered a 46-year-old woman immediately inside the front room of the house and “some level of physical contact” ensued during which the officer’s gun went off, Godbee said. The officers had identified themselves as police, he said.

note the dishonest language for the sole purpose of exonerating the state’s goons. paragraph one, the gun was the actor; it “went off”. paragraph 2, SRT was the actor, for they merely “set off a flash grenade” (i.e., not “the flash grenade went off”). paragraph 3, it’s back to defending the murderer, for the only guilty part was the “officer’s gun”, which “went off”.

this is standard lunacy when the lamestream media discuss a topic about which they know shit, especially when it fits their destined position as the state’s mouthpiece. note to career louts: with extremely rare exception, modern guns don’t “go off”; the trigger must be pulled. unlike you and your pravdalicious aspirations, the gun is not blameworthy.

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