General Peter Pace
"As an individual, I would not want [acceptance of gay behavior] to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior," Pace said.
Pace is using an analogy to assert that homosexual behavior is just as immoral as adultery. His analogy begs the question: whether homosexuality is immoral.
Analogical argument:
1.H and A are alike in being immoral.
2.I don’t want acceptance of A to be our policy (in the military)
3.Therefore, I don’t want acceptance of H to be our policy (in the military)
Is the analogy detailed enough? close enough to draw his conclusion?
Are there important disanalogies between H and A?
You could draw just the opposite conclusion for both H and A… that we
are wrong to reject A and so we would also be wrong to reject H.
Analogical Arg. #2 : Games & the Big Money Gamers
Wall Street, Banks, Mortgage brokers, et. al., were big money guys who played a game. The object of the game was not to win more money, since they all had far more than they could ever consume. The object of their game was (as in many games) simply to win… to beat the other guys at this game of amassing a fortune. Now they all know all of the usual moves and strategies. As in all games, to win when all are equally skilled and knowledgeable you must make abnormal, original, and risky moves. If you lose anyway, it doesn’t matter to you, as you are not going to injure your own real life.
But these guys ignored the reality of the rest of us. Their gaming directly affects the economies of nations and the lives of the rest of us.
As in many other games, such as racing cars and golf and baseball, measures must be taken for the safety of all concerned… players and spectators and any others who might be in danger. These big money guys did not care about these others. They played as if they were in a vacuum… a totally selfish game, as they certainly knew that we “others” could be seriously injured if something went wrong with their game.
Italian author/scholar, Umberto Eco:
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Yes, but one must be extremely careful with analogies. Once I wrote an essay in which I made some parallels between the Middle Ages and our time. But if you give me fifty dollars, I will write you an essay about the parallels between our time and the time of the Neanderthals. It’s always easy to find parallels. I think nonetheless that being concerned with history means making erudite parallels with the present time. I confess to being monstrously old-fashioned, and I still believe, like Cicero did, that historia magistra vitae: history is the teacher of life.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a forgery used by anti-Semites for the past 100 years to justify persecution of the Jews, world-wide.
The Protocols continue to be widely available around the world, particularly on the internet, as well as in print in Japan, the Middle East, Asia, and South America.[68]
While there is continued popularity of The Protocols in nations from South America to Asia, since the defeat of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy in WWII, governments or political leaders in most parts of the world have generally avoided claims that The Protocols represent factual evidence of a real Jewish conspiracy.
The exception to this is the Middle East, where a large number of Arab and Muslim regimes and leaders have endorsed them as authentic, including endorsements of The Protocols from Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, one of the President Arifs of Iraq, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya. The 1988 charter of Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group, states that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion embodies the plan of the Zionists.[69] Recent endorsements in the 21st century have been made by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri, and the education ministry of Saudi Arabia.[70]
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