{"id":270,"date":"2003-12-26T14:51:32","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T19:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=270"},"modified":"2009-03-18T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T19:53:18","slug":"bloody-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2003\/12\/26\/bloody-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNorman Geras <a href=\"http:\/\/normblog.typepad.com\/normblog\/2003\/12\/reply_to_ken_ma.html\">says<\/a>, in the course of writing about Bush&#8217;s war:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nTo give a crude analogy here: if someone burgles a house and her only motive in doing so is greed, I will approve of her action if, in order to bring off the burglary, she finds she has to release a terrified family from the grip of a bullying, violent and child-abusing patriarch. I will not think that what happened was overall bad because it was &#8211; &#8216;in essence&#8217; &#8211; a burglary; or worry, in my approval, about the burglar going on to burgle others. If she does, we can disapprove of &#8211; and oppose &#8211; that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhereas I don&#8217;t think, to give another crude analogy here, that a mob war should be thought of as a public service, even if it clears the streets of some deserving scumbags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Geras says, in the course of writing about Bush&#8217;s war: To give a crude analogy here: if someone burgles a house and her only motive in doing so is greed, I will approve of her action if, in order to bring off the burglary, she finds she has to release a terrified family from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[195,196,2446],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-iraq","tag-bloody-norman-geras","tag-stupid-analogies","tag-war-on-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}