I have a social sciences question I'd like some help with...

[Writer]

"In order to save the world, we must destroy it." - What philosophy is this, and who said it?

[flvegan]

1. Wasn't this from a video game?

[Ptah]

2. This quote?

"It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."

-- An American major after the destruction of the Vietnamese Village Ben Tre


http://revcom.us/a/027/vietnam-destroy-village.htm

[petronius]

3. It's attributed to an American officer during the Vietnam War:

"It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."

If it's actually from a philosopher, I'd say look among the Germans...

[insanity]

4. don't know who said it, but

It sounds like a consequentialist/realist philosophy taken to an extreme end.

[rug]

5. It's from Bush's First Inaugural.

[Writer]

6. Bush is Faust after a nasty bender. n/t

[rug]

7. Except Faust had a soul.

[Writer]

8. If Bush is Faust, then Rove must be Mephistopheles who sucked out Bush's soul.

[Inchworm]

9. ok.. I'm buzzed.. but.. I think it is a common human thought

Like an excuse or something...

Certain situations may drag the idea out of us. Fuck them hungry basterds, they should get a job...

Hitler...

Fuck the world. I'm right.

:shrug: