Frank wrote on Feb 28
th, 2023 at 9:27pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 28
th, 2023 at 9:24pm:
freediver wrote on Feb 28
th, 2023 at 6:01pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 28
th, 2023 at 10:38am:
freediver wrote on Feb 27
th, 2023 at 9:13pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 27
th, 2023 at 8:30am:
freediver wrote on Feb 25
th, 2023 at 5:05pm:
Quote:We should make ALL war illegal
So it should be illegal to use your military to defend yourself?
Like I said, I'm looking forward to the time when the conceptions of superior minds like Cicero and Evatt have full sway in the world, and we have a world with a rules- based order allowing disarmament among nations.
Then a nation doesn't need a military to defend itself against another nation, only a police force to defend citizens, or keep the peace, against individual lawbreakers.
You mean, like you didn't actually say.
Does it seem to stupid when you put it into actual words?
No
Quote:Should it be illegal to use your military to defend yourself?
Answer: yes, even though your actual question is first- rate garbage.
"A nation's military to defend the nation".
Like I said, given a functioning international rules-based system (quite easily instituted, as Evatt described in 1946) a nation doesn't need a military to defend itself from other nations; a nation needs a police force to defend its own citizens against its own lawbreakers.
So what do they defend themselves with if another country invades?
Unlike individuals,
countries won't need to defend themselves against other countries, if an international rules-based system is established,Note: the logistics of raising an invading army are logistically impractical, if all national militaries are disbanded under an international rules-based system.
So at last, men - ie individuals - will be reduced to fighting.... not other nations, but other men (ie individuals) in their own country.
Quick Google - you are out of your mind.
Well ...full marks for - humour?
Quote:Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than wickedness.
Why? Because stupidity might appear to contain some sense?
Quote:Evil can be .. exposed, it harbors the germ of self-destruction by inducing at least some uneasiness.
Correct, like the evil of small minds who are prepared to sacrifice children on the altar of (their own) falsely perceived "freedom".
Quote:We are defenseless against stupidity. Reason cannot prevail. Contrary facts are simply brushed aside.Bonhoffer
Leaving aside Bonhoffer, I have refuted this above: your stupidity can be dealt with, by reason: there is no such thing as 'defensive war', since 'defence' is in the eye of the beholder, eg, the nation's leaders. Hitler thought he was defending Germany against the 'evil' Versailles treaty, and international Jewry etc etc.
Quote:He's talking about you, parrot.
I think you will find he had other ideas than mine, in mind.
But I will quick google to confirm...