It's just a matter of scale. Steve
Bob Giramma wrote: > > > "...as long as the outcome intends to improve the situation for > liberty." In any case, I'm talking about nations, not neighbors. > > Do you really "think" the accidental bombing of a wedding is the same as > the intentional and repeated attacks on office buildings, restaurants, > discos, civilian airplanes, and other places where ordinary people > congregate? > > From: Steve > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:54 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:Libertarian%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Using force to improve the utilization of resources Re: > [Libertarian] Stop the War FOR Terror > > Bob Giramma wrote: > > I tend to favor Ayn Rand's philosophy that free > > nations are morally justified in discretionary use of military action > > against non-free nations, as long as the outcome intends to improve the > > situation for liberty. > > So if my neighbor is not using his resources in a way that I think best, > it's ok for me to use force to take those resources and put them to best > use? > > > There is undoubtedly far greater freedom in > > Afghanistan and Iraq today than prior to US military intervention. > > Just don't have a traditional wedding or funeral if the US is flying > overhead. > > -- > > Steve - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:dudescholar4%40basicmail.net> -- Steve - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take World's Smallest Political Quiz at http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html "If a thousand old beliefs were ruined on our march to truth we must still march on." --Stopford Brooke
