Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 02:41 PM 8/8/04, Dan Minette wrote:
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From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Objective Evil
> The Catholic Church would argue that no, one should not... evil to
prevent evil is still
> evil.
>
> In reality, all the Catholic Church is saying here is the simple moral
> precept that "the ends do not justify the means."
I may not have been as clear to others as I was to myself in the last
post.
What I am saying is that the just war argument is very much a "ends
justifies the means" argument.
Maybe so. Who decides if the ends justify the means?
(And again, this is a serious question. And I still have a point,
other than the one on top of my pointy little head . . . ;-) )
In the end it's history that decides. How a decision is portraid in
general to the world after it's been analyzed, evaluated, told, retold,
summarized, trimmed to size, altered, told again and finally the essence
that's left over after the whole process is written down and generally
accepted as such. The one general opinion that is left after that is the
judgement that either a majority or the vocal majority holds over which
choice and how it was made. So unlike Dan I don't believe that it is an
objective or fair process, it's merely a process that results in a
generally held opinion.
Sonja :o)
ROU: All is fair in love and war....
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