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I really don't care about the dynamics of international hegemony (the basis of current just-war theory). I'm concerned with the justification people use in saying "we killed people, but its ok because of X" or "i know we killed people, including small children, pregnant mothers etc, but thats ok...
i didn't say defensive war is justified. I was correcting his claim that GB didn't enter the war out of selfish motives
Besides the fact that text can't sneer (honestly i'm not that hostile).
As to your point, so what? I'm not trying to justify the use of killing as a diplomatic tool. It...
It was self-defense. Britain was acting in its self interest, since another european war would mean decreasing trade receipts.
Isn't revenge such a fine motivation for killing people? Thats a rhetorical question btw.
So uprooting a theocracy is sufficient justification to go to war? Lets go...
I agree you should be able to fight. However, killing is unjustifiable, and any attempt to justify it is rejectable on its face.
"There is a major problem in this world and it is not people killing other people. It is that people want to have full control of other peoples lives. That is what...
Instead of requiring youth to go and fight to pay for a college degree, they could pay for the degree and not make them fight. it is a conscious decision to fight and kill, and those people who volunteer for such duty are so stained with its means of accomplishing itself.
Even WWII?
no, not even WWII. the scale of the killing is unimaginable to anyone who looks at the figures. As a result of the war and its run-up Stalin killed 30 million people. That's the entire population of LA County. its evil, and not justifiable.
Low blow bro.
As history is my hobby, I have studied numerous wars in the 20th century from multiple angles. I have read first hand accounts of battles ranging from the current cambodia-thailand war all the way back to the crimean war. in all my studies I have never reached the conclusion that...
Lemme take a crack at this
as my evil twin said:
faith: the assertion of something for which there is no accompanying evidence
belief: a statement held to be true with the capacity of being either true or false
knowledge: a true belief
delusion: a false belief
I would add a few things;
Faith...