On 27 Aug 2002 at 9:03, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> [Blunderov0]
> (Burroughs probably didn't know that every year, on average, every
> American consumes the produce of 9, 7 hectares of mixed farmland and
> shallow sea. If every person on Earth were to do the same we would
> require an additional four Earths.)
>
> It is not clear to me that America (I mean this in a general sense,
> present company mostly excluded) has any claims to a monopoly, or
> indeed, any claims whatsoever, on either wisdom or morality.
>
> The projected war on Iraq has no legal or moral justification. To
> argue that it is simply necessary anyway is nothing less than fascist.
> Sapere Aude yourself!
>
>
> [Archibald]
> But Americans are better then other people, didn't you know that. They
> are stronger, smarter, better at killing things, better at consuming,
> better at ego-tripping, and their "leader" can beat up any other
> "leader" in the world so nanny nanny poo poo.
>
When the world demands of its only remaining superpower that it act as
global policeman, it is hypocritical in the extreme to turn around and
criticize it for acting to prevent a rogue fascist dictator with a proven
record of seeking and using other WMD's from obtaining nuclear
weapons - an action any ethical global policeman would feel morally
and personally constrained to take for the sake of global safety and
security.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sun Sep 22 2002 - 05:06:20 MDT