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k-onmmunist
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« on: February 23, 2010, 04:34:18 PM »

No. There is no good side or bad side in war. Both sides are evil and both comitted war crimes. For example, the Allies:

1. Bombed civilians
2. Firebombed Dresden
3. Massacred Axis PoWs on numerous occasions
4. Massacred Polish PoWs (Katyn)

Just to mention a few.
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2010, 05:12:57 PM »

No. There is no good side or bad side in war. Both sides are evil and both comitted war crimes. For example, the Allies:

1. Bombed civilians
2. Firebombed Dresden
3. Massacred Axis PoWs on numerous occasions
4. Massacred Polish PoWs (Katyn)

Just to mention a few.

None of which compare at all to launching an unprovoked war of global domination and systemically murdering 15 million people.

You could say the Allies played a role in that.
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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2010, 05:51:27 PM »


Only if you're trying to get the Nazis off the hook. No one forced them to murder the great majority of Ashkenazim who still lived in Europe, no one forced them to murder millions of other groups as varied as Roma and Soviet POWs, and no one forced them to launch a war of annihilation and destruction.

I'm not trying to get the Nazis off the hook. Just pointing out violence is evil no matter what flag its under.
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« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2010, 06:02:43 PM »

Portraying the USSR as 'good guys' is hardly a wise estimation, even if you are going to go for a whole good and bad basis.
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2010, 06:58:26 AM »

I'm sorry dead0man, but two wrongs don't make a right.
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2010, 07:10:13 AM »

Well the second one can if it stops a worse wrong from continuing. 

Again, a man is beating another man to death.  You've tried talking to him, but he ignores you.  You, as a human, would have the duty to make it stop.  Violence may be your only option.  What if the one getting beat to death is a dog?  A Woman?  A child?

No, there is no duty for anything.
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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2010, 07:17:20 AM »

Well the second one can if it stops a worse wrong from continuing. 

Again, a man is beating another man to death.  You've tried talking to him, but he ignores you.  You, as a human, would have the duty to make it stop.  Violence may be your only option.  What if the one getting beat to death is a dog?  A Woman?  A child?

No, there is no duty for anything.

Actually there is a legal duty in many countries....but I oppose them naturally.

Regardless, you do actually have a moral duty, and I have no respect for people that think they can just ignore problems before their own eyes and act like it's not immoral at all to go about their business.

It would all depend on what your own beliefs are. For a Quaker, they would have a duty not to intervene.
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2010, 03:57:24 AM »

No obviously, as you are forgetting the Civil War and numerous others.

Sorry NiK, but that one isn't either. Lincoln was a racist and he crushed regionalism in the US.
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