Re: [Paddlewise] Wilderness is good business

Even if the incident occurred as your friend described, it is not 
sufficient to establish your friend's assertion that the policy set by 
Idaho's government is to prohibit without exemption airborne search and 
rescue for downed aircraft in restricted areas.

First, your friend failed to set out the statute, regulation or written 
policy that he alleged prohibits without exemption airborne search and 
rescue for downed aircraft in restricted areas.

Second, even if one person had stood in the way of a search, it is a 
hasty generalization to conclude that the government's policy is to 
prohibit searches in such circumstances.

Third, hurling mud at environmentalists is no more than an ad hominem 
attack.

Fourth, labeling environmentalists as terrorists and then accusing them 
of not valuing human lives is setting up and knocking down a straw man, 
for it first distorts environmentalism, and then attacks the distortion.

Fifth, given your friend's utter lack of independent, authoritative and 
verifiable cites in support of the allegation that it is the Idaho 
government's policy to prohibit without exemption airborne search and 
rescue for downed aircraft in restricted areas, and given the utter lack 
of logic demonstrated by your friend in his fallacious reasoning, his 
conclusions should be given the weight they deserve.



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