RE: Would you .... ?
April 30, 2016 at 5:53 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2016 at 5:56 pm by IATIA.)
(April 30, 2016 at 5:29 pm)abaris Wrote:(April 30, 2016 at 2:59 pm)IATIA Wrote: Spoils of war. not a problem.
I said, don't bring the war into it. It's only a wiggle way to justify what one would do in any case if one sees a large amount of dosh lying around ready to be taken. Being honest with myself, I would take it, war or nor war. If I were a billionaire, I might reconsider. Though I very much doubt that.
This started with spoils of war per your documentary and you said "keep the enemy part out". I never mentioned 'enemy'.
(April 30, 2016 at 11:21 am)abaris Wrote: I just watched a documentary about an American officer lining his pockets with German artefacts after the war. ... And keep the enemy part out of it, since it's just a ways to wiggle out of the moral dilemma.
I see 'spoils of war' as a significant demarcation from 'stuff just lying around'. And besides, god said I can have the 'spoils of war', so I see no "moral dilemma".
As to what I would do outside spoils of war? I lived out of my broken down car for the better part of a year and never took anything that was not mine, lying around or not.
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