RE: War
October 23, 2011 at 8:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2011 at 8:56 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
(October 23, 2011 at 8:45 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Rev,. you are the one committing the biggest appeal to illogic here. You have stated that you think war is unnecessary, despite there being utterly compelling evidence to the contrary, and despite Switzerland being about the silliest example of a country that has prospered solely because it maintains a neutral stance. Your error? A fundamental misunderstanding of human nature. You have no problem glibly saying, when the question of the Middle East stopping export of oil, "yeah, that'll never happen," and yet your whole take on this thread has been that war, which has NEVER been absent from man's basic agenda, is unnecessary. Absurdism? OK, but I have to use your own line against you when it comes to war being unnecessary: That'll never happen. It is necessary, because it is us. Remove theft next, and then rape, and while you're at it, all addictions. Good luck with the silliness.
Then SURELY you are willing to give yourself over to the war machine.. er... I mean "progress machine" in order to keep human progress and science moving forward. Surely, if you TRULY believe what you say, then you would have had a very active military career in which you will willingly go to war, and even support a draft to force people to go to war.
Surely you practice what you preach.
BTW, you did change your stance in just 2 pages from your view to mine, and I made that obviously clear...or was that just a mistake?
P.S. - do you even know what absurdism is?
