Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:53:37 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
CC: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Scalzi & Pipe
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:
> mark wrote:
>> Mike B. wrote:
>>> mark wrote:
>>>  > There are very few hostage situations when you have phasers, and set
>>>  > them to stun
>>>
>>> Same is true with flamethrowers, poison gas and nukes....except for the
>>> "stun" part.
>> Wrong. If you've got "stun", you don't mind stunning the hostages.
>
> Never say, "Wrong" to someone who isn't.  They might use a flamethrower,
> poison gas or a nuke on you.
>
> You are making unwarranted assumptions about unwillingness to kill the
> hostages, so your "Wrong" is wrong.
<snip>
This is a non-sequitur. My throwaway .sigfile suggested a hostage situation
where you come in, and from a hiding place, stun everyone, then separate the
unconscious bodies. All I can make from your statement is that as soon as they
see you, the hostage takers decide to die, and take their hostages and everyone
they can with them, producing death, but not their original goal (whatever that
was) in taking the hostages in the first place.

  mark "shall we argue *this* sigfile?"

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