I think this is the fallacy
of the man who was accused of beating up his girlfriend and responded that he was innocent, because he knew a guy who *killed* his girlfriend.

Saying 'Communism's worse' doesn't prove that capitalism isn't bad. It doesn't even address the question of whether capitalism's bad.

(except in the vague sense that if your best boast is that you're better than the Khmer Rouge, it tends to indicate that you might not be all that great - much like you might avoid a shop whose slogan is "our staff aren't rapists")
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 15:58, 1 reply)

Maybe
but that argument would carry a lot more weight if you (or anyone) came up with something better than either. To my knowledge, no-one yet has - as soon as someone did, I'd be all for it. But in a world of wife-killers, the wife-beater has the moral high ground, and it will remain that way until some bright spark thinks of being nice instead.

To date, nobody has. Sucks to be human.
(Axeman Jim, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 18:41, closed)

well,
OK then.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 19:59, closed)