No just wars?

Michael Eisenstadt michaele@ando.pair.com
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:22:44 -0600


Roger Baker wrote:

> Hey! I'm good for another couple of rounds if you change your mind.

not until we agree on just wars. that is a concept which more than
a few actual wars in history are BY AND LARGE considered to have
been examples of. IE despite the innocent dead winning the war was 
a GREATER GOOD. some examples are WW II and the recent Kosovo 
intervention. the latter was done with surgical exactness with the 
numbers of innocent dead vanishingly small both in Kosovo and in 
Serbia and was a VERY just war.

building the Brooklyn Bridge cost the lives of dozens of workers not to
mention those of the designer and his son. but one would have to be
quite
the purist to therefore reject the project.

if you reject the very possiblity of just wars what would be the point
of arguing with you?