LogFAQs > #931706984

Far-Queue posted...

Saying someone can be instigated into mailing pipe bombs to people is giving them an excuse for an inexcusable action. Prefacing that by saying "doesn't make it right" doesn't take away the fact that they're attempting to excuse the inexcusable

It's explaining, not excusing.

You have explanations to understand the circumstances and how they came about, you have excuses to morally neutralise the point.

They're very different and conflating the two is a ridiculous and extreme view that only serves to flex your moral standing.

Allow me to put it this way; there's nothing morally wrong with lighting candles, it doesn't cause any problems in a normal circumstance. A gas leak is definitely not a good thing, we can comfortably agree that leaking gas = no good.

If someone lights a candle and sets off the gas leak burning down the building, you can say that they burnt down the building by lighting the candle. The person is not bad for doing what they did but we can explain that the issue was instigated by the candle lighter.

We can also say that someone starting a gas leak is a bad person and that the first person igniting the gas does not excuse the act, but it does explain the situation and outlines what could be done differently.

You don't have to be wrong to be able to change your actions and avoid bad things occuring. Bad people don't have to be excused to try to mitigate their damage.
---

Doctor Foxx posted...
The demonizing of soy has a lot to do with xenophobic ideas.