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Old 10-10-2005, 11:53 PM   #2645
Tyrone Slothrop
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Not fair

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Originally posted by bilmore
Misguided, like, the basic goal would be wrong, or like, it would be hard to execute properly? I agree with the latter. If you mean the former, why? Where is the error of philosophy in trying to save lives, improve lives, and foster happiness over slavery?
They would be hard -- no, impossible -- to pull off. We need not discuss the principled grounds for objecting to an effort to change another country's government because we can't, in any event, pull it off in these cases.
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