On 8 May 2010 18:31, Mike Godwin mnemonic@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
Defending means lessening the chance of the opponent to succeed. If you throw all the riches that are demanded and then some over the city wall, that's not defending, that's capitulating.
Wow. Even worse metaphor! "All the riches that are demanded"!
Perhaps, but yours is no better. When you attack a village it is because you want something they have (riches, land, women) or you just want revenge for something. FOX don't want anything we have and they don't really dislike us (sure, they would rather people went to them for knowledge than us, but that isn't really what this is about). They are attacking us simply because it makes exciting news and makes them more money. That is a completely different motive to an attack on a village so a defence based on a metaphor of an attack on a village is bound to fail.