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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vogon Poet: [QB] [QUOTE]Of COURSE the ends justify the means. The only reason that phrase gets a bad rap is that people who have whacked-out judgement capabilities are usually the ones that measure the desirability of the end.[/QUOTE]So you don't have a problem with the Nazi's gassing 6 million Jews [i]per se[/i], just that it was done for a relatively minor end, in that the average German didn't want them living next door? [QUOTE]End: death of many enemy soldiers, preventing death of many of ours. Means: Use of one tactical nuclear weapon[/QUOTE]That's absurd. By this logic, you're saying that the lives of your people are worth so much more than those of the enemy, that it's best to exterminate them long before they can threaten any of your people. Never mind that, say, many Iraqi soldiers maybe aren't rabid Husseinophiles and have no choice but to be where they are. By this logic, it makes it OK to nuke anyone (who can't nuke you back) rather than commit conventional forces. [QUOTE]Since there's nothing inherantly bad about the means, there's nothing that needs to be justified in the first place.[/QUOTE]Using the same logic you've just espoused above, the Axis of Evil can use their non-nuclear Bio/Chem weapons on your conventional forces first (in order to kill many of your troops, to prevent the death of theirs). To them, gassing an American division wouldn't be inherently bad. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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