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Originally posted by ironweed
I'll tell you what's scary: a belief that the ends justify the means.
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Do you mean as a normative statement, or "in this case"? I mean, I think our entry into WWII was a case where the ends did justify the means. We killed a whole helluva lot of people - but was that an evil thing? Or, would NOT participating have been the evil? How far do you carry non-violence? Simply watch the kid get beaten up across the street, or cross over and use violence to save him? Sometimes, the ends DO justify the means.
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By the way, what's the minimum acceptable ratio of Iraqis we killed to Iraqis who voted on Sunday?
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We'll have to ask the Iraqis that question, won't we? So far, from the polling I've seen, they think we're still in that acceptable range.
