Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 15, 2006 04:59 PM
Well, ermmm... seen the fact that you speak in (unrealistic) hypothetical terms, let me add another (unrealistic) hypothetical situation:
I wonder what would have happend to their moralizing snobbery if the whole world disarmed after 1945. Well, then...ermm...they would have been proven right with their snobbery and viewpoints!
Just to show you can't counter-argument with bland general hypothetical statements. If the 'what if' is absurd, then another, equally absurd 'argument' may prove them right.
I, for one, applaud their priciple stance, though I think it's a copple of thousand years too soon to be practical (and thus, it would be naive to expect much of it - though it might be that they don't, and just take the principle stance).
All by all, I rather see humans strive for peace then for war. Whether we can avoid war, or currently permit a 'no-army' policy, is something else (which I doubt, frankly). The military are a necessary evil. Their stance is against that evil, which I can understand and applaud; yet, alas, it is also necessary, thus we have to live with it untill it is not necessary anymore.
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Re:No Military Use
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 15, 2006 04:59 PMI wonder what would have happend to their moralizing snobbery if the whole world disarmed after 1945. Well, then...ermm...they would have been proven right with their snobbery and viewpoints!
Just to show you can't counter-argument with bland general hypothetical statements. If the 'what if' is absurd, then another, equally absurd 'argument' may prove them right.
I, for one, applaud their priciple stance, though I think it's a copple of thousand years too soon to be practical (and thus, it would be naive to expect much of it - though it might be that they don't, and just take the principle stance).
All by all, I rather see humans strive for peace then for war. Whether we can avoid war, or currently permit a 'no-army' policy, is something else (which I doubt, frankly). The military are a necessary evil. Their stance is against that evil, which I can understand and applaud; yet, alas, it is also necessary, thus we have to live with it untill it is not necessary anymore.
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