What the Heck was I Thinking!?

The Belmont Club posted on "The Three Conjectures" associated with the attainment of nuclear weapons by Islamo-fascists. Conjecture one contends that the threshold to nuclear war is lower now, because we know the intent of the islamo-fascists. Their willingness to use any weapon available removes any doubt.

Conjecture two - that attaining these weapons will destroy Islam builds on the first conjecture and adds the following component to the equation:  

"Under these circumstances, there would no incentive to retaliate proportionately."

Any time an article or post starts with the sort of absolutist logic as,

"Even one life lost to the violence of terrorism is too much,"

you have to know the author plans to perform several seemingly impossible feats oftwisting logic.

Instapundit pointed me toward another interesting post. Interesting to me because of the upside down logic applied throughout it. 

The post by Russell Shaw,  "I Hope And Pray We Don’t Get Hit Again-BUT….." at  The Huffington Post demonstrates some interesting twists of logic.

 

"Block the next Supreme Court appointment, one which would surely result in the overturning of Roe and the death of hundreds if not thousands of women from abortion-prohibiting states at the hands of back-alley abortionists;"

is juxtaposed with,

 

 

"…everything I stand for as a human being. A human being, who, just so you know, is opposed to most wars and to capital punishment."

There’s that fascinating twist of logic - supporting abortion rights will save the lives of hundreds of thousands of women, as will opposing capital punishment. No mention of the more than a million per year deaths of those thingies that cause the pregnancies - No, I don’t mean the guys who impregnated the women, the fetuses.

 

In addition, the number of executions under the reinstated capital punishment laws is an outrageous 60 per year. But wait, you say, the true number should be that huge list of hopeless victims of imperial power who have been condemned to death, not just those actually executed. That number is way higher - 3,500, except when you compare it to the number of homicides per year - 15,000 or more over the past 20 years.

There’s more of this upside down logic in his post. Read it for the entertainment value, or to see how bereft of good thinking some lefties are. Don’t look for well thought out logic.

James Lileks posted over at Newhouse News Service on the difficulties of getting people to like some parts of Western culture.

One interesting comment illustrates the upside down logic of the leftist cultural elites especially well:

"The artists seem more concerned with a culture that won’t let gays marry than one that won’t let them live."