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Originally posted by Not Me
It was not just because of the human suffering in Iraq, which is why your Haiti analogy sucks air.
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I, and many others, disagree.
If we see regions controlled by obviously bad people, where the populace is degraded, controlled, killed, and beaten down, I think that we have a duty, or at least a calling, to go and help them.
If you walk past a street corner and see a large man beating a small child, do you walk by and ignore it, saying "I hate violence, and so I will not be violent"?
No.
You become violent to the extent needed to impose your own moral system.
Because the day we give up our ability to judge, based upon our own moral system, is the day we abdicate our own brains.
