02-05-2007, 12:52 AM
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Nice Kitty
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Originally Posted by DareRing
You can't sign away your moral responsibility. No matter who's in office, it's still you pulling the trigger. Bush, Clinton, Hitler, etc, never killed anybody. War is one everyman killing another everyman, ad infinitum. Strip away all the pomposity and paperwork and it's simple, dirty, bloody, murder. So if you're thinking about traveling to some foreign land to murder people, you better have a bulletproof reason, better than "Mr. Leader told me to". Those who would use your life for their own sport would try to convince you, with grand language, legal wordplay, maybe even threats, that that you can sign away your responsibility, become a part of the collective cause, just a tool, a pawn, but in truth they are nothing more than a lone player without your consent. Imagine how much historical suffering could have been avoided if only individuals acted like individuals and society expected each man to follow his own well-reasoned conscience. Sadly that is not our history, but still ...
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