Moral Dilemna
I decided it's high time for a "thought provoking" post. So i'm posting this.
There are alotta people in this home that are intelligent. Intelligent people always make for good arguments. Why? Because they know what they are saying when they argue back. And there are some like me who just love to argue. I was on the way back home one day when I got into one of the first discussions with Jeremy that didn't end up as a debate.
I'm not sure who brought it up, but the subject at hand was "The War In Iraq" and whether or not going into Iraq to get Saddam out was a good idea. Most people would instantly spring up and say "No of course it wasn't". But what would you have done in Bush's shoes? Now of course they went in for completly different reasons and it wasn't to liberate the people and all that bull. But lets pretend for a minute that it was for the reasons they say. Is it right for them to start a war to depose a man who's committed attrocious crimes against humanity? Should America have even gotten involved? Or should they have turned the other way as innocent people were slaughtered?
The dilemna of "to interfere or not to interfere" is around everywhere. Some say it's wrong to interfere in the affairs of others (particularly other cultures) and some say it's wrong NOT to. Who is really right? During WW2 would you have stood idily by as Hitler slaughtered countless millions of Jews? Or would you have stepped in and taken part in a war?
It's a bit of a "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If you step in and start a war people will say "How could Bush be such a monster? Starting wars and killing innocent people just to get one man!"
If you don't step in people will say "How can Bush be such a monster? How can he stand idly by and watch as this one man slaughters countless innocent people?"
So the question is; is it right? Or is it wrong? Does the end justify the means? Does it ever?
posted by Blog God @ 12:18 AM
18 comments
18 Comments:
So you don't go by the means, or the outcome. Look at Bush'd motivation for going to Iraq. It's not like he actually gave ratcrap about freeing the Iraqis.
I'd say being a super power comes with a lot of responsibilities, however a lot of the war crimes carried out by Sadam happened during the '80's when America was backing him. I'm sure we knew what was going on, but it was in the better intrest of the the U.S to keep him in power.
As far as being a police force to the world, the question of where to start is always an issue. One must wonder why nothing was done in Rwawonda, or why nothing is currently being done in Sudan. I beleive it comes down to special interest in the region.
Many people are quick to criicize America for it's actions, yet seem to ignore any interest that the different European nations opposed to the war had for keeping Sadam in power. I dare say that if any other nation was the sole superpower in the world they would think nothing of throwing their military might around.
You lost me at hello.
shutup you shallow uneducated albino! :p
The Expancu...arity of my education is matched only by my vocabu...lisim, and its fairly pale not albino.
Yes but they are quite boring. Not that you have to but if I were you i would stick to hiddiously ugly babys and bad drawings.
If you put all the words in some type of order, they can come out to the word "N-A-K-E-D"
That's right April. Head once again stuck firmly between your legs I see?
And ben, yeah, I probably will, I just wanted to see if I can get a billion comments like Jason.
You know I still dont really understand you Oehler sisters, it seems that I always have to go back and read what you both say at least 3 times. And another thing, why are ppl still singing that song i made up?
I know what you mean. It took me about a year to get used to the way April talks. And Mindy i'm still adjusting to. But that's just cuz she dosn't make sence alotta the time.
By the way, what song are ppl singing?
the last 2 match meetings ppl have come up to me and in song said "If your horny and you know it drop your pants" some of the ppl i had never seen b4.
-Ben\ Class Clown
my thingy isint working.
oh great now its working!
haha ur so funny
Well, I suppose they enjoy it. And why not, it's pretty funny after all. And it's not over used. You should hear all the catch phrases Kevin and I have come up with in the last month.
Catch phrases? what, you mean like wheres the beef? I made up plenty of stupid catch phrases in my time, some of them even cought on by other members of our family. like when i was angry i would yell out "ARGFRAh" haha witch rosie started copying (dont know y tho, it was pretty stupid).
haha, yeah that was a dumb one. No I've been making up things with Kevin that really only sound funny in certain voices.
For example he'll say "For example" in a russian accent that sounds really hilarious.
Or we'll say something that's a lie and then immidiatly after we'll say "imaliar!!!" super fast as if it's one word and in a hillbilly accent and it comes out pretty funny.
That has to be that stupidest thing i've heard all day.
i miss katooey
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