zen_arcade

"I wasn't trying to compare him to them...I was just making the point that evil people often don't seem evil, in person." Perhaps because brandishing a person "evil" purely because they disagree with you is a broad generalization and tarnishes the integrity your argument? I don't agree with Chomsky on all points but the man obviously can back up everything he says with extremely well-researched, reasoned arguments -- he's been doing it for fifty years. He doesn't just go around indicting people because they hold different opinions from him! Quite the contrary, actually. The very fact that he was invited and chose to accept the invitation to speak at West Point speaks volumes about the organizers at West Point and Chomsky himself. I identify as a leftist, I suppose, but good lord that doesn't mean all people in history who are on the right are -- by definition, because they disagree with me -- "evil" or "morons". Sheesh!