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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: one_less who wrote (70974)7/25/2003 1:28:04 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
you might loose your alliance with someone like solon?
PUT 'EM UP, BUD! :-)

Change the subject to politics and you'll see just how much of an "alliance" there is. He and I have gone many, many rounds.

<i.The unjust killing of an innocent person with malfeasance" (murder) is a bad thing.
No. You can't. Remember the Aztec, Maya, and those cannibals? I think they disagree with you.

But there is no need to go that far. Soldiers, including American soldiers, are encouraged to hate their enemy. Ever seen any of the US propaganda posters showing Japanese soldiers in WW2? How about "the Hun" in WW1? The stories of German soldiers tossing babies onto bayonets? When they go out and kill those they now hate, are the murderers? Their countrymen back home call them the saviours of their country.

And that's no twisted scenario. The years in which no war is raging on this planet are rather rare.

But what of those Quakers who say war is morally wrong under any circumstances?

No. I don't see that you can get to "absolute".
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