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The principle of mutually assured destruction still applies today

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Sweet...

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and suggest that 90% of our military is an outright waste does not indicate to me that you have completed any high school level history or social studies classes.

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I don't ever remember taking "relevancy of the military 101" in high school.

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To be oblivious to the implications of this fact

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there's a history of strong countries invading weaker countries.

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and suggest that 90% of our military is an outright waste does not indicate to me that you have completed any high school level history or social studies classes. Im sorry that you felt I was belittling you, since clearly Im not aware of yours or any other anonymous internet poster's age or level of education.

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SHIFTING THE ONUS OF PROOF: This is when your opponent makes a claim, provides no evidence for it, and then expects you to find evidence of it. Your opponent is making the claim, so he should logically have to provide evidence. Shifting the onus (or burden) of proof to you is a fallacy and a very low tactic to engage in. Often, a Creationist will make phantom claims and, then, act like they are common knowledge and he shouldn't have to back them up.

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Then maybe you'd like to explain how our military is used so effectively, rather than belittling anyone who doesn't see what you believe is obvious.

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Yes. All of the military that is meddling elsewhere, costing taxpayers money and what not.

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It is clear that you only care about your own liberty, the liberty granted to you and your ilk by our military so that you can profess glee when cops are murdered, and not the liberty of anyone else.

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On a moral front it's the right thing to do, but lets say we don't care about that.

The invasion of Taiwan would show that China is not content to simply trade and be prosperous. That it has nationalistic ambitions to expand and conquer beyond its borders. The successful invasion of Taiwan would be followed by incursions into southeast asia. Eventually they could go after Korea, and a long way down the road Japan. This causes major problems for us. We have to defend Taiwan to stop the chain of events that follows.

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Thank you lehighguy.

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It is clear that you only care about your own liberty, the liberty granted to you and your ilk by our military so that you can profess glee when cops are murdered, and not the liberty of anyone else.

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Wait. He only cares about his own liberty and so that means he likes it when cops are mudered?

whaaaaat?

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um, ok

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It is clear that you only care about your own liberty, the liberty granted to you and your ilk by our military so that you can profess glee when cops are murdered, and not the liberty of anyone else.

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Wait. He only cares about his own liberty and so that means he likes it when cops are mudered?

whaaaaat?

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Reference to a different thread.

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Dear lehighguy,

thank you for that informative post. i learned a lot.

Regards,
Sponger

(does that sound more normal)