(December 11, 2021 at 5:22 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:(December 5, 2021 at 9:09 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Does America, or even any other nation, really have a moral impetus to change anything?Yes.
(December 5, 2021 at 9:09 pm)Ahriman Wrote: Why should we?Because we are understand morality, we have a moral obligation to try to do better today than we did yesterday.
(December 5, 2021 at 9:09 pm)Ahriman Wrote: When lions kill and eat gazelle, do the lions then apologize to the remaining gazelle? Of course not, because it's simply a part of "lion nature" to eat gazelle. Human nature is amoral and has much less to do with empathy than most people would like to believe.If you are going to argue that humans are amoral, just as any animal with no understanding of morality, then you truly are, as has been stated earlier in this thread, a sociopath.
NO, although many Americans seem to think they do.
As a general principle, nations do not make policy nor go to war on moral or religious grounds, although they pretend otherwise.
Countries do not have friends. They have allies based on the perceived best intertest of all parties ,they have countries they ignore and they have enemies.
Peacetime relations between nations are almost always involve some form of quid pro quo.
Basic References; The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. I think Sun Tzu is the better of the two. Both books are in the public domain and available free in PDF form at The Internet Archive.
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