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To: carranza2 who wrote (81208)	3/11/2003 1:40:30 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes that is true, but that does not make it right. Nor did this prove to be in our long term interest or else we'd not be fighting the world for the chance to take out Saddam. Self interest and the so called "realism" does not justify unethical behavior. My opposition is not rooted in some wishy-washy idealism. Ethical policies are in fact what serves our interests best in the medium and long runs. Now if it ever comes down to a battle for survival, then yes all bets are off including ethics. But there is a long distance between "interest" and "survival". I am a firm believer in natural laws (not to be confused with bogus misdirected political movements that claim to have laws of nature on their side). So I'd like you and everyone else to consider this. Even in the poorest societies one can survive without eyes. Yet no matter who you are, if you are totally without ethics and people around you hate you, then 9 out of 10 times you will not survive. So having ethics is even more important than having sight. Ethics is so important that we evolution has seen to it that it is incorporated into our genes. In other words, those people (or nations) who were totally unethical did not live long enough to pass their genes to future generations. This is a message that is lost in politics, especially international politics, and as result we keep finding ourselves in hot water. Sun Tzu