By Kelli Miller WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 ... Sept. 14, 2004 -- It usually pays to be nice, but...
... I think of certain values and beliefs there is pressure on us to accept. The hatefulness of this gives a powerful motive to show it as wrong, to uncover...
... http://www.ethiopians.com/azmanov.htm For an African take on our pal. (Just what came up on google). "Africa -That is the main conflict in history. This is...
... Are they immoralist enough without him? - Do the Polynesians need Sartre? Of the approximately 816 million people in Africa (2001) it is estimated that 20...
... Do Pacific islanders need British wpcs? http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004452795,00.html Defence lawyers said other witnesses would deny the woman's...
... I suppose this does raise a question. How far does Nietzsche's relevance extend? Didn't he himself suggest that Christianity performed, up to a point, a...
... Some might think Christianity is what we should want for Africa where the alternative is Islam. Paganism might be better though, if it could thrive. In the...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1290787,00.html Nailing the neocon myth The left claims the Bush administration is in the grip of a hawkish cabal....
... Lets have one in defence of persecuted pagans (and Christians). It's not as if ideals have no place in American foreign policy. We do what we feel like. We...
... Standard. ... Is this really so puzzling? Who suggests that Rice or Powell invented the foreign policy? Wasn't it suposed to be Wolfowitz, Perle and the ...
... But after ... "axis of ... Reagan had spoken of the Evil Empire, though. Hitler's evil was such, Churchill declared, that if Hitler invaded hell, he,...
... (Note that President Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" formulation ... - Opportunistically murdering noncombatants and justifying it by reference to the tenets...
... Don't the Americans regularly kill a lot of noncombatants? Where is the distinction that stops that counting as murder? Not the permission of the UN. How...
... There is an interesting ethical question I would like to put to the group. Think of an employee of a drug company, that suppresses clear information that...
... - Not intentionally. ... - A civilian killed because of his proximity to an acquired military target and a civilian who is kidnapped and beheaded for...
... Not quite my question. How many noncombatants have lost their lives since the beginning of the war? ... Not quite the point either. I wasn't asking about...
-- ... "One of the main reasons that the British assassinated Heydrich in Chzechoslovakia, was to cause reprisals in order to stir up resistance. The Brits...
... That said, it would give me much satisfaction for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to be hung drawn and quartered, if and when he is captured. Following a fair trial,...
... At least as much as this chap, surely. http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2001%2F12%2F02%2Fwfisc02.xml BOBBY FISCHER, the...
... since the beginning of the war? - Between 4,000 and 10,000, apparently. During the Gulf War Greenpeace claimed 15,000 Iraqi civilians died. Saddam's...
... Zarqawi to be hung drawn and quartered, if and when he is captured. Following a fair trial, of course. That's the sort of language people like that...
... For the first Gulf War I would like to add the Iraqi soldiers as deaths much to be regretted. ... "Murder is homicide of a person under the Queen's peace...
... You call me a moral relativist. A degree of relativism is surely common sense. It is natural to prefer your own country, your own customs, to all others. ...
From this it can be seen that I am not a cynical moral relativist. Egoistic morality or the law of do what thou wilt, by no menas imply a refusal to pass moral...
... that the country may be overrun by internecene strife. ... - Because Shiites and Sunnis have been at war for centuries. And because they both nurture a...