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Originally posted by taxwonk
You keep telling me you have a strong sense of right and wrong. Yet you freely support the notion of killing people because they don't have the same idea as you about who it's okay to kill.
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I never said such an absurd thing and I don't think anyone on this board has ever said such an absurd thing.
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Originally posted by taxwonk Note that once you say it's okay to kill the insurgents, Saddam, terrorists, etc., you lose the ability to claim that you are morally opposed to killing. Therefore, the best you can argue is whether you or someone else gets to decide who will die.
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I understand that in some cases killing is morally wrong in some cases it is Ok and in some circumstances it is a moral imperative. Like if the only way you can stop someone from killing an innocent child is to kill them, then you must kill them. I have pretty well thought through my moral structure and I am comfortable with it.
For some reason you think that morals have to be simple. Like all killing is wrong. Why do you think that? It is more intricate than that and I don't understand why anyone would think it has to be simple. Just because I support free speech does not mean I think it should be legal to yell fire in a crowded theater or that libel and slander should be legal.
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Originally posted by taxwonk You also say that it's bad to lie under oath, but you defend Sccoter Libby and Karl Rove.
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I have never even entered into that conversation. I don't know anything about what Libby did. What I did say is that lying under oath should be prosecuted by the full extent of the law.
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Originally posted by taxwonk You also say that it's okay for us to spread democracy by planting propaganda. However, a free and accurate press is one of the strongest cornerstones of democracy.
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Where is the contradiction? Yes a free press is important for a democracy, and I have no problem with the US planting propaganda to help establish democracies inother countries. There is not contradiction there. Why is that a contradiction?
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Originally posted by taxwonk You claim that we are not engaging in torture, but you defended the existence and maintenance of undeclared prisons and prisoners.
I never claimed that we were not engaged in torture. I have never discussed those prisons on this board but I do defend them. What is wrong with them?
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Originally posted by taxwonk I'd suggest you worry less about my moral compass and try to find yours; it's obviously lost.
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I have got one that I have thought through. You clearly have not thought yours through or you would not throw out mindless phrases that mean nothing. I think if you read my posts you will see that I have a consistent moral philosophy. I don't see any consistency in yours.
