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To: 1stFreedom
Nobody has yet to prove that it was ok to commit a regional genocide.

Is it ok for a lion to kill a gazelle? Is it ok if a volcano explodes? Is it ok that the Europeans killed off most of the Native Americans and populated North America? Is it ok Spain invaded Central America and created the Hispanic race? Is it ok everyone dies someday? None of these things are "ok" but that is the real world. Welcome to it.

176 posted on 08/06/2005 3:12:48 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Reeses

Thank you for reminder of reality for those who refuse to accept it.


178 posted on 08/06/2005 3:17:44 PM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton, Jr.)
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To: Reeses
Is it ok for a lion to kill a gazelle?

Yes. This is a non-moral situation, as it has no morally responsible actors for whom it could be "right" or "wrong."

Is it ok if a volcano explodes?

Yes. Non-moral.

Is it ok that the Europeans killed off most of the Native Americans and populated North America?

No. That the technologically superior Europeans dominated the Mesoamericans was probably inevitable; but the way they did it was unconscionable.

Is it ok Spain invaded Central America and created the Hispanic race?

This is a mixed bag, as some of the invasion was armed aggression, but some of it was simply settlement in sparsely-populated areas. As for the creation of the Hispanic race: much of that was intermarriage, some prostitution, some seduction, some rape. Each merits a separate moral judgment.

Is it ok everyone dies someday?

Again, a mixed judgment, depending on how they died. The fact that everyone dies does not translate into a right to commit murder.

None of these things are "ok" but that is the real world. Welcome to it.

Human beings have sufficient intellect and freedom of choice that they can be held responsible for their actions. This is what we mean when we say they are "moral actors" (as distinct from non-moral actors such as lions, volcanos, etc.) When human beings act in a way that violates moral law, they do not sink to the level of the animal (bestial.) They sink to the level of the demonic. They make life hell for others; they create a kind of hell inside of themselves; and then they get hell hereafter as well. It's not a very good deal.

180 posted on 08/06/2005 4:05:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (What does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?)
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