WAR hooah ! What is it good for ???
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oy veh !!!
LOL !!!
MikeyDB, what the world be without corndogs ? Perhaps if we were all Amish and wore dark clothes without flashy buttons and got rid of our phones and cupcakes and ipods and maintained a dour earnest gait steeling our faces into the wind, we would approximate the morality you wish ?
That no more describes you than your stereotype of me.
I know you know this.
So wazzzup with you ?
LOL !!!
MikeyDB, what the world be without corndogs ? Perhaps if we were all Amish and wore dark clothes without flashy buttons and got rid of our phones and cupcakes and ipods and maintained a dour earnest gait steeling our faces into the wind, we would approximate the morality you wish ?
That no more describes you than your stereotype of me.
I know you know this.
So wazzzup with you ?
Jimmoyer
I don't know (absolutely) which "moral" principles are the ones we ought or ought-not subscribe to....
You offered this morass of situational morality and conditional morality as groundwork for something... It seems clear to me that you're suggesting in the round-about lexicon of the snake-oil salesman that the United States and I suppose anyone subscribing to your particular presuposition about "morality"... has the "right" the "duty" the "obligation" or the "responsibility" to interject your vision of moral certitude anywhere in the world where you think this framework of moral relativism is under attack. You'd excuse the violence and mayhem of the governments involved in killing thousands because they're operating on a "moral principle"... Can we "stand-by" and watch the suffering in Darfur and do nothing..." Can we stand-by and witness the slaughter of Kurds under the regime of Saddam Hussein"?
Equiviocations for behavior that does more harm than good.... Rescuing thousands of corpses and creating generations of fear and suffering...orphans and destroying the means of survival and potential for "success"...to the end of what? Of punishing Saddam Hussein for killing Kurds?
Poor reasoning Mr. Moyer and a farcical connundrum.
I don't know (absolutely) which "moral" principles are the ones we ought or ought-not subscribe to....
You offered this morass of situational morality and conditional morality as groundwork for something... It seems clear to me that you're suggesting in the round-about lexicon of the snake-oil salesman that the United States and I suppose anyone subscribing to your particular presuposition about "morality"... has the "right" the "duty" the "obligation" or the "responsibility" to interject your vision of moral certitude anywhere in the world where you think this framework of moral relativism is under attack. You'd excuse the violence and mayhem of the governments involved in killing thousands because they're operating on a "moral principle"... Can we "stand-by" and watch the suffering in Darfur and do nothing..." Can we stand-by and witness the slaughter of Kurds under the regime of Saddam Hussein"?
Equiviocations for behavior that does more harm than good.... Rescuing thousands of corpses and creating generations of fear and suffering...orphans and destroying the means of survival and potential for "success"...to the end of what? Of punishing Saddam Hussein for killing Kurds?
Poor reasoning Mr. Moyer and a farcical connundrum.
Can we "stand-by" and watch the suffering in Darfur and do nothing..." Can we stand-by and witness the slaughter of Kurds under the regime of Saddam Hussein"?
----------------------------------------MikeyDB-------------------------------------------------------------
Those are questions. Those questions are not my position on situational ethics !!
And those questions aren't just asked by me.
Nor are we the only ones attempting to answer those questions.
You've chastised me for bringing them up, but you certainly have not answered them, have you ?
If you have, you might direct me to your post where you have answered them directly.
And you are taking way too much liberty in inferring way too much from their existence your misunderstanding of my position.
Questions.
Not just my questions.
Nor do they presuppose situational ethics.
Questions.
Your suspicion that they may be used in a slippery way to justify war is a good point.
Still, as we debate these questions, Darfur and Southern Sudan do continue the slow grind of flesh and blood, right ?
----------------------------------------MikeyDB-------------------------------------------------------------
Those are questions. Those questions are not my position on situational ethics !!
And those questions aren't just asked by me.
Nor are we the only ones attempting to answer those questions.
You've chastised me for bringing them up, but you certainly have not answered them, have you ?
If you have, you might direct me to your post where you have answered them directly.
And you are taking way too much liberty in inferring way too much from their existence your misunderstanding of my position.
Questions.
Not just my questions.
Nor do they presuppose situational ethics.
Questions.
Your suspicion that they may be used in a slippery way to justify war is a good point.
Still, as we debate these questions, Darfur and Southern Sudan do continue the slow grind of flesh and blood, right ?