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459, RE: OK, so we're clear
Posted by foxnesn, Sun Aug-15-04 03:54 PM
>>apologies dont get you anywhere. instead, destroy your enemy
>>so that he can never harm you again. morality flew out the
>>window when japanese planes bombed pearl harbor.
>
>Hopefully everyone who read my original reply can see that
>there is no reason to argue with these statements because
>you have already won. Each of the 3 sentences you wrote
>here is based on strategy (motivated, of course, by a spirit
>of bloodthirsty vengeance... much like the little kid who
>hits back because, when his friend hit him, "morality flew
>out the window"). No one can successfully argue that
>"destroying your enemy so that she can never harm you again"
>is strategically wrong.
>
>However, by admitting that morality grew wings and exited
>the building, you're also admitting the rightness of the
>people you have argued against once a difference between
>right and wrong is considered as a factor.
>
>Obviously I side with the camp who thinks there is such a
>difference.


strategy, when running a country, is more important than morality. america did not attack japan. america was defending itself therefore i am not admiting the rightness of japan.