Loathsome Mantras

Loathsome Mantras – You Always Hear Them When You Haven’t Got a Gun

Two wrongs don’t make a right
Usually heard in conversations about capital punishment, this begs the questions:
Is the death penalty actually in itself, wrong?
Is it just to spend money (which could house the poor) on keeping a murderer in gaol?
Is capital punishment not a signal of the perception of murder as abhorrent?
Is it a bad thing to show criminals how angry we are?

It takes all sorts to make a world
Oh really? Hitler, Stalin, Henry VIII, Herod?

Bigot
Someone who believes that two diametrically opposed assertions cannot both be true. Makes sense to me.

Fundamentalist
Someone who believes as strongly as, but differently from someone else.


Extremist
Someone whose strongly held beliefs, usually religious, impinge on every aspect of their life. Admirable. If their beliefs are different from mine and threaten to impinge on my life, a Crusade is called for.