For threads, students earn full credit for posts that take a position AND state the logic of the position. Use the reading content to help with this task. Mere opinions become valid arguments when (and only when) they are supported with logic and empirical evidence. Likewise, comments on peer threads earn full credit when they move beyond simply agreeing or disagreeing to explain their positions with logic and empirical evidence.
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Colombian paramilitary leaders justified extreme violence against civilians, including massacres, as necessary to defend against leftist insurgents. On the other hand, human rights advocates argue that paramilitary violence toward civilians far exceeded insurgent violence in scale and cruelty. The move La Sierra captures daily life in a barrio of Medellin where the Bloque Metro, an urban paramilitary, exercises territorial control. Does the portrayal of paramilitaries in La Sierra corroborate or challenge the paramilitary narrative of justified force against civilians?
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