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To: DoodleBob
If an adversary accumulate enough to kill you ten times over, the fight is essentially over. If he starts to initiate an skirmish, you won't be able to fight back. He will repeat his provocation, and take away what you have by piece by piece until he has it all. If you decide to fight back, he will crush you and you will have no chance.
11 posted on 08/22/2017 8:03:58 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Like I said, I'm uneasy about a pre-emptive strike, not totally against it. There will undoubtedly be situations where such a strike is warranted. For example, I'm a strong proponent of the Castle Doctrine and "Make my Day" laws, though (of course) those laws aren't about nations attacking nations.

But the antifa losers use the same rationale to commit violence. That is, they claim moral legitimacy in preemptively attacking "fascists" before being attacked, lest fascism get out of hand. Of course, they are WAY OUT OF LINE in being judge, jury and executioner in terms of defining who is a fascist. But, nonetheless, it's hard to (rightly) bash their philosophy and turn around and give the OK to a preemptive strike in NK.

Again, I understand the difference between antifa and normal people, and nation-states. But, if I was to read the text below, I'd say NK still has no right to preemptively strike the US.

NK said "if the US accumulate enough to kill NK ten times over, the fight is essentially over. If the US starts to initiate an skirmish, NK won't be able to fight back. The US will repeat his provocation, and take away what NK has by piece by piece until the US has it all. If NK decide to fight back, the US will crush NK and NK will have no chance.

Believe me, I'm not a pacifist and I'm not arguing we shouldn't turn up the heat in NK. I just want to make sure there is a sound philosophical underpinning for taking them out, that can't be used against us. Thank you for listening and the civility.

15 posted on 08/22/2017 8:29:44 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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