Re: OT: reaction to Iraqi elections

From: John Larkin (jjSNIPlarkin_at_highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:38:42 -0800

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 05:02:27 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian
<eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:53:07 +0000, Jim Yanik wrote:
>
>> Richard the Dreaded Libertarian <eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote in
>> news:pan.2005.02.26.01.59.10.186630@doubleclick.net:
>>
>>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 01:18:27 +0000, Jim Yanik wrote:
>>>
>>>> John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in
>>>> news:kl7MPREkm2HCFwtu@jmwa.demon.co.uk:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But I agree with your 'somehow'. No country can 'bar' US from doing
>>>>> anything, but China might be persuasive if it suited.
>>>>
>>>> Would that be a reason why the EU is selling weaponry and dual-use
>>>> materials to Communist China?
>>>
>>> Sounds like the world is arming up, since they don't know when
>>> or where the behemoth is going to invade next.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's funny that a "libertarian" would be against liberating people.
>> (which the US has been doing for a LONG time)
>
>It's tragic that anyone can equate "killing people" with "liberating people".
>

Sometimes that's what it takes. The Germans didn't give up France
voluntarily, nor the Japanese the Philipines.

If you think that killing is absolutely wrong, you reach the Joan Baez
absurdities of being unwilling to shoot one person to save the lives
of thousands.

Seems to me that if choice A kills a thousand, and choice B kills a
million, A is clearly the moral imperative. Apparently lots of people
disagree. Maybe they assign weighting factors based on race. Maybe
they think it's better to live their secure, comfortable lives and
complain about injustice occasionally between meals.

John

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