Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (28766)	9/21/2001 12:56:03 AM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

"the majority of civilized peoples would consider organizing the deaths of innocent people amoral," I see that you aren't arguing the subject that was under discussion, whether the "majority of civilized peoples" consider organizing the wholesale deaths of innocent people definitively immoral. (Rather than amoral.) Instead you picked up on a presumption I made about the terrorist mentality to make a variety of philosophical/political points. Maybe someone will feel like arguing them tomorrow. (I don't think you'll get 'flamed,' actually.) I suspect that the terrorists look at it as war, and that their actions are amoral, immoral, or evil to the extent that war is amoral, immoral, or evil. I assume from the sentence structure that you mean there that you yourself (as opposed to the terrorists) don't distinguish, in terms of morality, among strategic acts of war that attempt to minimize deaths among innocent civilian populations and those that specifically seek the deaths thousands upon thousands of them as the object of the particular mission. I think it's safe to say that the majority of civilized people make that distinction.