----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:33 AM Subject: RE: RE: Deadlier Than War
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ... > > > In the Catholic Church, we ask forgiveness for both "what we have > > done, and what we have failed to do." > > Same for Lutherans, exactly. > > But that doesn't mean that there isn't an ethical difference, does it? There is. The priest and the levite who walked past the man beaten by robbers were not as immoral as the robbers; they were just immoral. > If we are now killing babies by failing to make war on Iraq, then we were > also killing babies by supporting sanctions. That's absolutely true. We would also be morally responsible for letting Hussein rearm, get a WMD, and become a superpower. >Unless the "we" in those sentences is the whole human race, I don't think it makes any sense to think > this way. The reality of the situation is that if the US doesn't do something about a place like Rwanda, the Balkins, Iraq, nothing will be done. The other countries that could do something have a moral responsiblity for sitting back, but US policy must be based on the fact that everyone else may or may not give the US token help, but that's about it (in GB's case its more than token). The citizens of the US are in a unique moral position. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
