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Old 05-31-2018, 12:10 PM   #101 (permalink)
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Close enough to the same page.
Depending on who I'm talking to maybe, but considering it's you I think you just like the thought of karma too much to look at political violence objectively. You just get too much satisfaction out of seeing your oppressors die to calm down and ask yourself if this is actually productive.

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1) Islam in Europe after America’s short term response.
2) We’re a long way from seeing how it pans out long term.

Hell I’ll go a third, nothing works all the time.
Do you think that anyone's lives have actually been improved by the fallout of 9/11? Whether or not radical Islamists' goals are being achieved isn't the question, it's if humanity as a whole is better off for the violence. Millions of refugees fleeing their homes and Iraq and Afghanistan becoming destabilized warzones doesn't exactly sound like progress. It sounds like same **** different day.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 05-31-2018, 12:19 PM   #102 (permalink)
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I mean i can if you want since you dont seem to understand that justification is not linked to morality. All i wanted to know is if you always link them or have some view of morality such that no immoral act can ever be a justifiable one.
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Old 05-31-2018, 12:22 PM   #103 (permalink)
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Depending on who I'm talking to maybe, but considering it's you I think you just like the thought of karma too much to look at political violence objectively. You just get too much satisfaction out of seeing your oppressors die to calm down and ask yourself if this is actually productive.



Do you think that anyone's lives have actually been improved by the fallout of 9/11? Whether or not radical Islamists' goals are being achieved isn't the question, it's if humanity as a whole is better off for the violence. Millions of refugees fleeing their homes and Iraq and Afghanistan becoming destabilized warzones doesn't exactly sound like progress. It sounds like same **** different day.
First part, fair point. I think I got my history straight but then again of course I do.

Second part- I was trying to argue that radicalism has a rightful place in social movements.

Big picture is the world a better place? No. I don’t think I could make that case.
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I mean i can if you want since you dont seem to understand that justification is not linked to morality. All i wanted to know is if you always link them or have some view of morality such that no immoral act can ever be a justifiable one.
At the risk at getting bitched at for jumping in do you mean like Hiroshima & Nagasaki to shorten the war?
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Old 05-31-2018, 12:27 PM   #105 (permalink)
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@OH - Im not sure i agree wih that example but yes here are tons of things like that.
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if you justify it with the usual response you'd be saying the US was in the moral right to drop the bombs or at least was not in the moral wrong
Well, if you assume that not bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killing 200,000 people or whatever it was would result in more deaths then it kind of is a numbers game at its core. Would that be preferable or would the moral abhorrence damage humanity to an extent that would make the bombings a net failure?

Not trying influence anyone, just musing.
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So your view of morality changes to suit the needs of the individual? Cant stealing still be immoral in your example but simultaneously justified?
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it's just a tautology in this context of a specific scenario

if an action is immoral it is not justifiable

because if it were justifiable, it would no longer be immoral

because what are you justifying if not the morality?
The ends.

Hypothetical: If the Nazis Were Right Would You Agree with Some Form of the Holocaust
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I answered first that if you think the ends justifies the means, what you're justifying is still the morality of the action

your moral justification is the ends
Depends on the severity of the action. My seemingly frivolous Holocaust thread was about questioning whether or not you'd be willing to change your moral paradigm if it became clear that it was completely incompatible with reality. Not so much that you should potentially change what you think is moral, but that you should potentially be willing to go against your morality if the cost of sticking to your morality worsened the existence of humanity.

I don't see how murdering millions of people could ever be considered moral considering the effect on society and the direct-genocide-perpetrators of murdering millions of human beings, but if the end result would in the end outweigh the immediate horror then might it not be worth the sacrifice?
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it's just a tautology in this context of a specific scenario

if an action is immoral it is not justifiable

because if it were justifiable, it would no longer be immoral

because what are you justifying if not the morality?
Youre justifying if your action is reasonable. Lets try this without a moral question.

Are you justified in believing in god or the flat earth? Now apply the same logic to decide if an action is justified.
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