There's something in Instapundit that reminds me of that saying. There's a "professor" who wants the death penalty for global warming deniers. No question that this guy is well-educated. But does he have an ounce of common sense?
I got through about two or three paragraphs of his essay before I began thinking "Just another leftist-liberal jackass." Should I take his essay apart piece by piece? That's what used to be called a "fisking" in the old days of blogging. But to fisk this guy is a waste of time. He is totally immersed in his own paradigm. Anybody arguing within his own paradigm cannot even acknowledge that there could be another way of thinking about the problem. It is like that gun debate with Piers Morgan. Morgan is obtuse, so is the left in general.
In general, to fisk a liberal is a waste of time because you are not attacking their logic, but their beliefs. Any who would stray from their belief system is evil. If you question them, you are a devil. Fisk them for your own pleasure. You won't convince them of anything though. They are God and are totally infallible.
Well, I'd better comment on some of what this bozo says anyway even if it is a waste of time:
- The opinions of everyday GW deniers are evidently being driven by influential GW deniers who have a lot to lose if GW is taken seriously, such as executives in transnational oil corporations. [ comment: Nobody can be independent enough to think this through on their own without somebody spoon-feeding them their propaganda and talking-points? Physician, heal thyself. I have thought this through on my own. I have researched this on my own. I don't buy what they are selling.]
- there is simply no money in environmental doomsday stories [ comment: Ever heard of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow"? Doomsday is very popular and lots of money can be made off of it. Duh.]
- the cost of reducing GW to a manageable amount (whatever that is) will be enormous[ comment: Fallacy. The thinking here is that people must suffer for their sins. The sin is living too well. We must return to nature, and in doing so, lose our high standard of living. The fact is, there is an economical way of eliminating so-called greenhouse gases, but the left is not at all interested in it. This would enable people to escape judgment for their sins, so that's why the left isn't interested. Besides, there's a lot of money to be made in cap and trade schemes.]
- GW deniers fall into a completely different category from Behring Breivik. They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. [ comment: This is coming from a university professor. So, somebody with an honest difference of opinion is worse than a mass murderer? Deranged.]
- I propose that we limit the death penalty to people whose actions will with a high probability cause millions of future deaths[ comment: More derangement. There is such a thing as ex-post facto (punishment for what was legal in the past) law in this country. But there is no category for this type of law. A murder trial for future deaths? What kind of insanity is this? You can only have a trial for deeds that have been done in the past that were illegal in the past and still illegal in the present. Not for deeds that may or may not take place in the future. The only way to enforce this law is to impose a strict censorship on "dangerous" ideas. Who decides what's dangerous? Why, the left does, of course.]
- there is a dividing line somewhere between murders for which the death penalty is appropriate and murders for which it is inappropriate[ comment: Yeah, an imaginary one just like your example, you twit.]
- the Pope and perhaps some of his closest advisers should be sentenced to death[ comment: Why of course. Murder the Pope. That will save the world! The Pope is so, so dangerous. /sarc]
- The Nazi holocaust was the worst crime in human history[ comment: The worst? There have been crimes with greater body counts. This is hype.]
- I guess that right now there is no existing law, either national or international, under which such a prosecution could be pursued.[ comment: Nor likely to ever be one unless the world goes insane, which is where the left continually is with about every one of their wacko ideas.]
- Right now, in the year 2012, these ideas will seem quite crazy to most people. People will be saying that Parncutt has finally lost it. [ comment: You said it. If I read through this much first before commenting this much, I could have saved myself a lot of time. But I would have lost some pleasure in ridiculing this idiotic rotgut leftist hogwash.]
- Who knows, perhaps the Pope would even turn me into a saint.[ comment: Too late. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in your future world. Too bad, too sad. No sainthood for you, numbskull.]
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