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In reply to the discussion: Are you really ready for another war in Iraq? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)A man walks into a bar and sees a beautiful woman and goes up to her and immediately offers her a hundred dollars for six and she slaps him and screams "what is wrong with you, I'm not a whore". He responds with "what if I offered you a million dollars?" and the woman laughed and said "I'd think about it". Well, the the guy cracked a wry grin and said ????
"I knew you were a whore, we just have to negotiate the price".
You just negotiated your price there. My point is not to beat you up for this but to attempt to relate that the logic remains the same. It is the price or value in the exchange that changes not the logic, the reasoning is locked in.
How would defending the innocent lives of all of those hundreds of thousands or more in Bagdad, already put through so much suffering in no small part directly resulting from our actions be "morally insane" but defending the 40,000 isn't nor is defending the Kurds?
We'll get you some dead children, mutilated women, and maybe some heads on pikes and the same morality that guided before will be right there with you again and on its own it is a beautiful feature in a human but it is easily manipulated and grips tighter and tighter once one starts down a path.