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Wednesday, March 30. 2011

"The right thing to do"

Re things like Libya, via Uncle Norm:



I invite you to consider the limits of simple moral impulse as a sufficient justification for making a choice. The fashion for assuming that to discover how we should act we need only look within our own hearts has gone too far.

Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 13:48 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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And is perilously close to incorporating religious sentiments as justification for our foreign policy. Tell me again how this differs from a Crusade?
#1 ruralcounsel on 2011-03-30 14:59 (Reply)
People who manage to do good when setting out to do good usually know how to do something else that's related to the topic.
#2 rhhardin (Link) on 2011-03-30 17:49 (Reply)
Who dat said, "...who the hell do you think you are...?
#3 Leag on 2011-03-31 10:31 (Reply)
Meanwhile, the bishop in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, said it appears to him that people just want the fighting to continue.

“They want to continue the war,” said Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli of Tripoli. “Arming part of the Libyan population against another part other doesn’t seem, to me, to be a moral solution,” he told Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/what-to-do-about-libya/
#4 Leag on 2011-03-31 11:33 (Reply)
It's all about liberal feel good. As long as it feels good, do it. Results are irrelevant, good intentions are important.
#5 Ray on 2011-03-31 13:58 (Reply)

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