Turdacious wrote:Smet and terra-- just curious, but have you arrived at your conclusions by reading opinions from both sides of the debate, or just those that validate your own preconceived notions?
The fuck is the debate anyway?
When is war justified
As JS Mill put it:
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature.
"Liberalism is arbitrarily selective in its choice of whose dignity to champion." Adrian Vermeule
Re Smet's Forgotten Soldier reference :
The author wasn't SS. He served in the regular German Army (the Wehrmacht). IIRC he served in the Russian campaign.
Turdacious wrote:Smet and terra-- just curious, but have you arrived at your conclusions by reading opinions from both sides of the debate, or just those that validate your own preconceived notions?
The fuck is the debate anyway?
When is war justified
As JS Mill put it:
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature.
Why can't war be justified and a racket at the same time?
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." JS Mill
I don't know how anybody could reasonably discuss the history of this country, let alone the rest of the world, from past to present, without utilizing concepts like racism, war, and rape.
I can see how modern-day using has seen the overuse of said terms, sure, and people try to apply them to situations where the severity of such statements doesn't deserve it, but to dismiss them entirely?
It seems like an extreme that isn't warranted, that's all.
My cousin is a redheaded german-mexican, we call him a beanerschnitzel
Is this info on the public radar, is it denied, is it just a shrug of the shoulders. Not trolling etc, truly interested as an outsider. In fact as an outsider, I noticed that even this 'expose' journo stopped short of telling like it is from a non U.S. perspective.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We tried to keep a lid on that shit hole WWI and WWII created because of the oil. The extent of that sin is how one feels about the value of cheap oil.
