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24. It's ok if Empire does it??

Reply to RobertEarl (Reply #22)

Mon Nov 16, 2015, 01:26 AM

Nov 2015

OK. Just let me know when an evil 'Empire' deliberately mass murders civilians on purpose.

Your moral relativism is self serving and out of place when not all the Paris burials have yet taken place.

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Paris in Perspective [View all] markpkessinger Nov 2015 OP

.... randys1 Nov 2015 #1

When you put quotes on 'innocence' melman Nov 2015 #2

I'm not suggesting they were not innocent . . . markpkessinger Nov 2015 #4

What should we do? katsy Nov 2015 #3

If history tells us anything . . . markpkessinger Nov 2015 #6

Who is trying to overcome an ideology by force? kwassa Nov 2015 #9

ISIS is founded in a particular extremist religious ideology . . . markpkessinger Nov 2015 #10

I understand what you are saying, but I don't agree with it. kwassa Nov 2015 #16

Extremist? ISIS is applying what the Quran says Yorktown Nov 2015 #17

I don't see it as trying to overcome an ideology by force, but to limit actions by force if needed uppityperson Nov 2015 #31

So you are basically saying we turn the other cheek? katsy Nov 2015 #11

My original post wasn't even about how France or any other nation should or should not respond... markpkessinger Nov 2015 #14

No. No "maybe" about it. katsy Nov 2015 #18

You have a smart point about underlying ideology and organizational expression alcibiades_mystery Nov 2015 #19

You gotta be fucking kidding me. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2015 #28

Don't worry, because one thing ISIS never does is target innocent public gatherings... Blue_Tires Nov 2015 #5

So, whatever we do is okay as long as someone else did it first? markpkessinger Nov 2015 #7

You do realize certain people (who I won't name) Blue_Tires Nov 2015 #34

The new genre of the Tragedy Scold alcibiades_mystery Nov 2015 #8

My apologies if moral complexity offends you n/t markpkessinger Nov 2015 #12

Is that what you call it? alcibiades_mystery Nov 2015 #13

What a skewed perspective you present Yorktown Nov 2015 #15

+++++++ uppityperson Nov 2015 #20

My OP is neither a justification for the actions of ISIS ... markpkessinger Nov 2015 #21

Your OP says 'Paris in perspective'. Sorry, no perspective needed. Or welcome. Yorktown Nov 2015 #23

Mark. Don't you get it? RobertEarl Nov 2015 #22

It's ok if Empire does it?? Yorktown Nov 2015 #24

No. RobertEarl Nov 2015 #25

So general Custer justifies ISIS shootings in Paris? Yorktown Nov 2015 #26

VietNam? RobertEarl Nov 2015 #27

VietNam was sound in principle, not in practice. And Iraq was just GW being an idiot. Yorktown Nov 2015 #29

That is some revision of History you have RobertEarl Nov 2015 #32

I did not say you were stupid, I said GW was Yorktown Nov 2015 #33

Thank you for one of the few sane OPs about this Catherina Nov 2015 #30

It seems the very definition of hubris to instruct others on when to mourn. LanternWaste Nov 2015 #35