{"id":186,"date":"2005-01-12T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T03:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2005-01-12T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T03:28:43","slug":"the-travis-bickle-school-of-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/01\/the-travis-bickle-school-of-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Travis Bickle School of Logic*"},"content":{"rendered":"

NPR reported<\/a> on All Things Considered<\/span> today that the United States’ task force has officially called off the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report also included the White House’s rationalization that the war in Iraq was justified because of Saddam Hussein’s “intent” to procure such weapons. Let’s take this logic to its natural conclusion.<\/p>\n

Saddam’s intent was to procure weapons which morally and ethically justifies invading the country he leads getting thousands of soldiers and civilians killed in the process.<\/p>\n

So, intent, in this universe, becomes the primary motivator in making decisions. It is, in fact, more important than actual actions.<\/p>\n

To take this line of “logic” to it’s natural conclusion, I would, then, be allowed to kill someone who looked at me the wrong way because it was clear, to me anyway, that his intent was to do me harm so, in reality, my actions are not homicide but self defense.<\/p>\n

Are you buying this?<\/p>\n

The logic is perfect but the conclusion is completely and utterly wrong. It just makes me wonder when we stopped thinking.<\/p>\n

* Travis Bickle’s “Are you talking to me?” monologue in Taxi Driver<\/a> not only made Robert De Niro famous it also epitomizes the Bush administration’s thought process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR reported on All Things Considered today that the United States’ task force has officially called off the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The report also included the White House’s rationalization that the war in Iraq was justified because of Saddam Hussein’s “intent” to procure such weapons. Let’s take this logic to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}