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I totally agree, that it's immoral to participate in war, but how to reconcile that position with current world? Imagine you are a Kurd and ISIS is attacking yo
by monort 11y ago
I totally agree, that it's immoral to participate in war, but how to reconcile that position with current world? Imagine you are a Kurd and ISIS is attacking your home. What would you do? The only way I see is to flee, but it's not scalable.
- talmand 11y agoBased on many people's opinions, the only thing to do is die now or flee to die later.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIt's never immoral to resist evil. That way lies barbarism.
- monort 11y agoUnfortunately participating in a war means not only resisting evil, but also hurting innocents. Even modern wars kill large number of civilian population. For example, lowest estimations of Iraq War civilian casualties are in the tens of thousands.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoAnd Saddam genocidal murders were greater than 50,000. Evil has a great capacity and an endless thirst. It has to be opposed.
- monort 11y agoSo to oppose evil you have to kill as much innocents as the evil itself? I don't see how it can be ethical.