“You apparently think you have no Judge to face, when this brief life is over.”
Many posters are confused. They believe - apparently - that being moral is more important than being effective.
Though there may be times and situations where this is true, I submit that to do so while at war is to court disaster.
It seems to me that there are two possible answers to that question. Either:
If it's the first, then it hardly matters who wins a war. Our tenure on this planet is brief; always going, and soon gone; and has no significance; or...
If it's the second, that new perspective may not focus on who won a war.
My friend Mr. Barret, a shrewd, decent and experienced man of tremendous practical, applicable intelligence, who was born in 1926 and is now 87, was 19 and in the USAAF in the Pacific when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. It's possible that without those two bombs, J.P. Barret would have been n an excellent position to die at 19.
He knows that; but his perspective now is different than it was when he was 19; now he thinks the one thing necessary, is to do what is right in the eyes of God --- whose perspective he is persuing.
Thirty, fifty years from now, we will all three--- you, me, and Barret-- be dead. It's quite possible there will nobody on this planet who remembers our names. It will be interesting to see what matters then.