Re:Airmen who surveil the Islamic State never get to look away
by Gibbon1 on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:36AM
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> I don't really know what it means to intervene in things
Most of the time where I thought maybe intervention was a decent idea, it wasn't. The way I think of it now is you can't throw sticks of dynamite in a flower bed and expect roses. All the things war is damages civil society.
Re:Airmen who surveil the Islamic State never get to look away
by zxcmx on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:54AM
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Well maybe we shouldn't have intervened. I sort of say "we" in a loose way since family. I dunno.
Maybe it would have been better if they'd just worked it out themselves. That said, do you know any Koreans?
My grandfather spent the rest of his life after the Korean war (as an an anzac, artillery, ironically I guess) in a mental hospital, "shellshock" as they called it then. My grandmother and my mother were terrified of him. He got let out a couple of times and always got put back in.
I don't really know what it means to intervene in things, I suppose we would have to talk in some way about the moral value of South Korea existing even if that is unpalatable.
My point I guess is that you are talking about our yes, corrupted set of moral objectives, without maybe considering what happens if we do nothing.