All ideas and are abstract and so are all events not directly experienced.
The bombing of Hiroshima is totally abstract. The event has no longer has any
existence in the universe. the only way we can talk about it at all is by creating a
set of concepts about it through abstractions of the information we have.
There is nothing in my hypothetical that could not possibly happen.
I put it to you that the reason you can not answer the hypothetical is because it
shows the flaws in your logic and you are resistant to change your thinking, even
when shown that it is ridiculous.
In short:
I have shown that totally abandoning morality in war means that even the most
abhorrent acts could be justified for minimal strategic gain. Can you refute this flaw
in your reasoning?
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Where there is a rule, you insist on going for the exception from it.
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We have a saying in English: "Exceptions prove the rule".
Perhaps better read as "Exceptions test the rule" as "prove" isn't often used in that
way in English that way anymore.
In this case, the exception has tested the rule and found it lacking.