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| How Horrible is WAR?; don't support it | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 7 2006, 06:49 AM (845 Views) | |
| LWpianistin | Sep 7 2006, 10:43 AM Post #51 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh. Well...for some reason I didn't know about that. I still think it doesn't matter where it happens. War is horrible, but at times necessary. The End. |
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| Jolly | Sep 7 2006, 10:55 AM Post #52 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Here's a wild theory for you.... In Europe, some of the inroads of Islam among the native population is due to the feminization of the European male. Wouldn't that be a hoot?... |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| George K | Sep 7 2006, 12:20 PM Post #53 |
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Finally
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And the time before that was in 1979 - the taking of the American Embassy in Teheran. That IS American soil. That was in Iran, remember? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Dewey | Sep 7 2006, 12:21 PM Post #54 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I hate war. I HATE war. But I recognize its occasional necessity, while simultaneously acknowledging its evils. When justifiable, it is at best the less evil of two options - but despite its problems, that still occasionally means it's the best possible option. That said, I've never understood the logic of this alleged argument against war, and it seems to come up all the time. To argue that because there are numerous threats and injustices that we can't or don't do anything about invalidates the correctness of fighting others, makes no logical sense. A war is justifiable, or not, on its own merits, not on how many other problems there may be, and whether anything is done about them. We'll never save every patient admitted to a hospital, but I don't see that as an excuse to close them all tomorrow and stop all medical research. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Hobie | Sep 7 2006, 12:50 PM Post #55 |
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Junior Carp
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Dewey So you think that the war in Iraq somethng you support? I do not really follow your logic. Are you saying that the current state of the world is like the medical profession and the war is like medical research? What are you saying? I get the part that you see the war as a necessary evil. I agree about the evil part, but not the necessary part. |
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| Dewey | Sep 7 2006, 01:06 PM Post #56 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Actually yes, the war in Iraq is something that I support, but that's a different issue, and irrelevant to my point, which is more general than any specific war. The point, as I thought I made pretty clear, is that the argument that a war is wrong or unjust because there are other equally unjust or evil situations elsewhere in the world that we can't or don't act upon - is illogical. The core of this argument is that until we have the means and the will to right all wrongs equally and simultaneously, that we have no moral authority to try to right any wrongs. I refuse to accept that argument. I refuse to accept it in regard to fighting disease. I refuse to accept it in regard to fighting poverty. I refuse to accept it in regard to social injustice. And I refuse to accept it in regard to national defense. The argument, when actually considered, holds up no better than does wet toilet paper. People may very well be able to make reasonable arguments against war, both specifically and generally, but this isn't one of them. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Hobie | Sep 7 2006, 01:15 PM Post #57 |
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Junior Carp
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OK, I see now, and I have to agree with you. It's a variation of the "two wrongs don't make a right" argument. I still say let's get our troops out of harms way. We are going nowhere fast in Iraq. What do Americans know about Arab culture? Enough to cram a democracy down the throats of religious enemies that have been warring for thousands of years? I say we're misguided and paying for it with the lives of Americans. That is why I am so worked up. |
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| John D'Oh | Sep 7 2006, 01:17 PM Post #58 |
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MAMIL
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It's not a purse, IT'S EUROPEAN! |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Kincaid | Sep 7 2006, 01:22 PM Post #59 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's a man's bag! |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Jack Frost | Sep 7 2006, 04:50 PM Post #60 |
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Bull-Carp
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Because Cheney, Rove and Rummey had to decide whether the WMD lie or the 9/11 connection lie was going to play better with the American public. jf |
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| John D'Oh | Sep 7 2006, 04:56 PM Post #61 |
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MAMIL
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It took politicians 14 months to figure out the best lie? It normally takes them about 14 seconds. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a mistake is just a mistake. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| The 89th Key | Sep 9 2006, 01:06 PM Post #62 |
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Sorry I'm late to the thread. I haven't read all the posts, but Hobie...all I have to say in response to:
The indifference of good men when faced with evil. |
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