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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is
by dabluecaboose 3y ago
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse."
-John Stuart Mill
- giraffe_lady 3y agoThinking nothing is worth a war is not the problem the US has with war, historically.
- ahartmetz 3y agoQuite true, but the war at hand is clearly one of defense (for the Ukrainian side).
- mensetmanusman 3y agoIt took Pearl Harbor to get America involved in WW2. Prior ~80% were against doing anything to resist Hitler that might result in violent conflict.
- avgcorrection 3y agoAmerica was famously “isolationist” at the time, yes. Obviously one is talking about US policy after WWII and up until the present.
- avgcorrection 3y agoMaybe the same applied to the British Empire of John Stuart Mill’s time.
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