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To: greenspirit who wrote (176990)	12/4/2005 8:14:20 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It's not a question of "rather" see millions killed- it's a question of not knowing the future. I would "rather" use a logical and justifiable system of means, then hope to hell I can justify a bad means by an uncertain "good" end. You, apparently, are completely at the mercy of your means. If you end up killing more people by your intervention, suddenly you don't have any justification for your means, because they were completely dependent upon your end. I find that an unacceptable and immoral way to act. All the arguments in the world aren't going to convince me to commit bad actions now, in the hopes a Deus Ex Machina will allow we to excuse those acts later. I've spoken about Tibet a number of times- unlike most of the folks who are so fired up about invading Iraq, who clearly couldn't give a monkey's.