I understand--and agree with you that I do not accept that answer (but I can push students only so far in a professional context) because (and this goes right back to Tolkien as does so much else), not even the Wise can see all ends and "judge" a life as a life. In some murder cases, I would be completely for life without any possibility of parole. But in many of these arguments, I have more questions than not.
Even the war issue--one thread of rhetoric used to justify the current war was the evil nature of the dictatorship.
But my response to that is to ask what about the horrendous oppression and genocide going on in (to name two places) North Korea and the Sudan? What is going on there is, arguably, killing more people than Sudan ever did. But "we" the U.S. feel no need to interfere.
North Korea has no oil. Sudan does apparently.
So much of life is complex--and I distrust anyone of any political affiliation who claims that the answers are simple.
And the recent reports on what intelligence we had concerning WMD seems pretty damning.
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Date: 2004-10-09 09:40 am (UTC)Even the war issue--one thread of rhetoric used to justify the current war was the evil nature of the dictatorship.
But my response to that is to ask what about the horrendous oppression and genocide going on in (to name two places) North Korea and the Sudan? What is going on there is, arguably, killing more people than Sudan ever did. But "we" the U.S. feel no need to interfere.
North Korea has no oil. Sudan does apparently.
So much of life is complex--and I distrust anyone of any political affiliation who claims that the answers are simple.
And the recent reports on what intelligence we had concerning WMD seems pretty damning.