this is affirming the consequent. "liking bad things -> you are bad" might be true, but it does not imply "bad person liking thing -> thing is bad".
> but it does not imply "bad person liking thing -> thing is bad".
It does imply this if it's in the exact context of the Gestapo and Stasi and surveillance technology.
Weird, I didn't make a value judgment, I had only pointed out the biting irony of the situation at hand. Any assumption you've made from my post is just that: an assumption.
the irony kinda depends on the value judgment though, at least under my reading. if the israelis invented a delicious new candy, would it be ironic that nazis would have enjoyed it? or slightly less ridiculous: the nazis would certainly have loved to have a rifle like the galil. is that ironic?
No, it's not. They'd also have loved modern cryptography and reconnaissance satellites.
Pretty meaningless. I'm sure that every fighting organization that has ever existed would love to have more effective weapons.