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Odd, you seem to think the greater good isn't worth making sacrifices for, and that it's so evil only dictators do this. Counter-point: The US sacrificed 400.0
by jplayer01 8y ago
Odd, you seem to think the greater good isn't worth making sacrifices for, and that it's so evil only dictators do this.
Counter-point: The US sacrificed 400.000 lives fighting the Nazis. Another 600.000 were injured. These people were sacrificed for the greater good. The US didn't have to enter the war. The US didn't have a dictatorship - afaik, it was a federal republic with a democratically elected president.
I'm not saying the US is innocent. I'm saying it isn't a black and white matter.
- mannykannot 8y agoSo odd, in fact, that you might have given some thought to the possibility that you had misunderstood the point. Notice the use of the phrases 'whatever they perceive', 'other people', and the fact that this is in response to a post about a particular way of approaching issues. Contrast Heinlein's cavalier and hypothetical invocation of the necessity for making hard decisions to Admiral Nimitz's anguish over the burden of having to do so in real life, as revealed in a comment to Frank Capra, quoted in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18237374#18247358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18237374#18247358
- jplayer01 8y ago>Such people are very helpful for the likes of Torquemada, Hitler and Stalin. Such people weren't in the US government? You remember all the American rah-rah-rah bullshit?
- mannykannot 8y agoI have no idea why you think the US government, specifically, is somehow the basis for a counter-argument.
- coldtea 8y agoThose people did sacrifice, but the US elites and governing diplomats didn't sacrifice those people for "the greater good". They sacrificed them to enter the war and ensure its place on the post-war world (as it did). They tried the same in WWI, pushing Americans to join a war they had no reason to be in.