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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Cartman: I was impressed with your civilty too. I had just been reading some of the posts from the past few weeks and saw the flames that had errupted, so I wanted to put a disclaimer in there that I was not going to keep it going. But since I had so much fun reading your responses, I am going to break my promise and say a very few more words. 2. The concept of legitimacy really bugged me when I took international law. You're right, there [i]is[/i] no objective scale by which we can measure every act of questionable legitimacy. It really raised my eyebrow when I read that a lot of countries were secretly glad the Israelis bombed Iraq's nuclear plant in 1983 (I think). They considered post hoc to be a legitimate act because the results were good. The problem is how ex ante you do it, and I really don't have an answer. The only consolation I can give is that, so far, the use of preemptive strike has worked well enough to not obliterate humanity. 3. I have to say I was extremely impressed you went and read Fukuyama's essay! I have one on this very topic if you're interested. It's much shorter than Fukuyama's, I promise. http://www.techcentralstation.com/060503B.html . I would have linked it before but I thought the post was getting too long as it is. Perhaps what I'm reading in your post is something we discussed in my jurisprudence class all this past semester: the is/ought distinction. The gist of it that while we want people to act with good motives, law is not a weildy tool to achieving that end; religion is better suited to it. 10. That's one thing I hate about the news media: they're not very good at keeping two thoughts in our heads at once. You're right, one argument tends to get emphasized to the exclusion of others at any time, unless you're a news junkie like me and try to read everything. The arguments were being made, they just weren't being communicated very well. I would have liked to have seen a nice poster shown to the media of all the reasons we should have gone to war and have it make it on the nightly news so everyone in America could read them all at once. 12. I'm curious about your response to Fukuyama's essay. Where do you think he went wrong in it? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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