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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (64856)10/30/2002 11:08:28 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
The fanatic
is socialized. But he is not responsible to the wider societal values,

Whose wider societal values?

There are far more non-Westerners in the world today than Westerners. If you take a vote on societal values, we lose. (As is regularly shown in the UN.)

What you have to do, as I know you do do, is claim that the societal values of the minority are better than those of the majority, and that the majority have the obligation to give up their societal values (which include hatred of the US) and adopt ours.

Interesting that recently you stated as a moral certainty that democracy was preferable to dictatorship, but you don't trust world democracy when it does exist. Not that you are arguing for dictatorship, but I think you're really arguing for an aristocracy -- with the US and some of Europe as the aristocrats, of course.
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