| Skybird |
08-29-13 07:05 PM |
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Originally Posted by August
(Post 2107474)
I wasn't giving you advice. I was just pointing out that it's hypocrisy to lecture others about morals when you have none yourself.
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I made that comment you quoted some years ago and in a context that expressed that the evil big guys tend to raise the stakes because the suffering does not reach them and the dying is done by their people and subordinates, not their family that may be dear to them. I wondered back then whether it would be different if it would not be just the ordinary people, but their own wife and children getting killed in the ongoing of a war. And I said back then that once the kids are old enough, it is stupid to let them live if they already have been risen in the spirit and mindset of their father so that they continue his deeds if the father is removed. I think I also said that even politicians in the West too easily vote for wars because they have no own family members exposed to the dangers, or have the power to buy them out of a draft system.
As long as you seem to imply by questioning my argument from back then (by quoting it out of context and thus, like you love to do so often, giving it a twist, a certain appearance that nevertheless distorts it) that you find it acceptable to have the suffering done by the ordinary population while leaving the closest inner family circle of those responsible for the bloodshed untouched, as long as you do not object to collateral damages killing hundreds and thousands because you refuse to accept killing the family members of the responsible evil leaders and teaching them the lesson of the war directly - as long as you think and argue that way, you have no moral authority whatever to lecture me or others about morality.
And try to quote people in context. That you often have misquoted me intentionally and out of context over the years, to score a cheap rhetoric point en passant, says more about yourself than it says about me. |
