notthatmccarthy

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   by notthatmccarthy 4y ago

   I think I am. If you see what's happening in Iran right now, it's clear that people don't always coldly calculate their chances to win and there is a threshold beyond which common decency and ambient morality will boil over t
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   by notthatmccarthy 4y ago

   > I am struggling with the alternative. So a dictator can invade any country he wants because otherwise he can say "booh, nuclear apocalypse" and because we can't risk to be anywhere near that, we need to give the dictator
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   by notthatmccarthy 4y ago

   > This is the eternal paradox of being anti-war: if you are advocating peace in a polarized situation you are essentially aiding and abetting the enemy. There is no such paradox. True patriots simply do not want their beloved countries t
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   by notthatmccarthy 4y ago

   Yes, this is a very well known problem. Even in the '60s most of the people who were, for example, against the Vietnam war, were closet Stalin supporters, commies and reds under the beds. They were dirty hippies with long hair that smo