{"id":2097,"date":"2002-10-14T05:28:08","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2002-10-14T05:28:08","modified_gmt":"2002-10-14T12:28:08","slug":"is-this-cartoon-objectively-pro-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"Is This Cartoon Objectively Pro-Terrorist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after September 11th 2001, my pal Kevin<\/a> – whose links<\/a> page compliments me by comparing me to a fart, bless his heart – drew this cartoon<\/a>, which is my favorite of all the political cartoons I read that week.<\/p>\n

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(You can view a larger version of Kevin’s cartoon here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Now Instapundit<\/a> says the cartoon is "monstrous," because (he says) the two scenes aren’t equivalent.<\/p>\n

I’d say Glenn is being comics-illiterate. Kevin drew the cartoon at a low angle – the point of view is exactly the height of a child’s eyes – with a child’s head at the center of each panel. To anyone who knows how to read cartoons, this means the scene is being viewed from a child’s perspective.<\/p>\n

And from a child’s point of view, the two scenes are<\/em> equivalent. In both cases, outsiders are brutally killing people for reasons that children know nothing about.<\/p>\n

That Glenn thinks it’s relevant that an adult law professor sees a big difference, suggests that Glenn doesn’t understand the cartoon.<\/p>\n

Killing innocents is what’s monstrous, Glenn. And even if<\/em> the actions that kill innocents are justified, necessary, and unavoidable, it’s still<\/em> monstrous to kill innocents. Pointing out this truth – a truth that children understand quite well – is not<\/em> monstrous As Mark Kleiman<\/a> says, "If you’re not willing to kill a bunch of people who haven’t done anything in particular to deserve it, then you’re not ready to wage war.".<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortly after September 11th 2001, my pal Kevin – whose links page compliments me by comparing me to a fart, bless his heart – drew this cartoon, which is my favorite of all the political cartoons I read that week. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}