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

To: one_less who wrote (64805)	10/29/2002 8:44:07 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

In order to prove something wrong or right, you must have a standard that is clearly agreed upon as wrong or right. Otherwise you simply talk past one another. This is an excellent point. But we have to deal somehow with the reality that in the world there are major groups of people who cannot agree on a standard of what is right and wrong. Or, perhaps they can agree on that in theory, but not in practice. Our own nation was born out of armed struggle, including what would have in their day been termed terrorist acts. The nation was held together through another armed struggle, also including what were clearly, by today's standards, war crimes (such as Sheman's march to the sea) and terrorist acts (such as John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry). Even in our history, within one nation, what is clearly seen as right and wrong has been difficult to determine. And remains so to this day, as the struggle over abortion clearly shows. Clearly, we believe our Western values are right, and those who would attack what we deem to be innocent civilians are wrong. But we cannot deny that some people we consider terrorists themselves consider ALL the enemy to be fair game, and their cause to be just. I cannot agree with them. But nor can I prove them wrong by any standard of proof they would accept.