At 02:41 PM 8/8/04, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:10 PM Subject: Objective Evil
> The Catholic Church would argue that no, one should not... evil to prevent evil is still > evil. > > In reality, all the Catholic Church is saying here is the simple moral > precept that "the ends do not justify the means."
I may not have been as clear to others as I was to myself in the last post. What I am saying is that the just war argument is very much a "ends justifies the means" argument.
Maybe so. Who decides if the ends justify the means?
(And again, this is a serious question. And I still have a point, other than the one on top of my pointy little head . . . ;-) )
-- Ronn! :)
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