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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.
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