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Originally posted by Spanky
When you combine Scientific materialism and dictatorship of the prolitariate all communist atrocities that followed were forseable. When you have an elite that has full dictatorial power and believes that there are no "natural rights" and they must engineer society to increase the material benefits to all and it is OK to sacrifice individuals for the common good, that is a recipe for mass slaughter.
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This was precisely the strategy that you proposed was not only acceptable, but morally compelled by the universal moral code.
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When you like at human beings as cells of the state body politics there will always be lots of cancerous cells that need to be exterminated.
It is only when each cell has rights that are given by a higher power (as opposed to other cells) that there is no excuse to liquidate cells for the common good.
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Again, as noted above, you were arguing yesterday that killing and war in the name of democracy was morally required. How does this differ from viewing Saddam as a "cancerous cell" that needs to be removed?
Note that I'm not defending Saddam. I'm simply pointing out here that you're condemning Stalin for doing exactly the same thing you were arguing in favor of, invading a nation for the purpose of imposong an ideology foreign from their own and killing all who get in your way.
