ABC/WP Redux-Kerry +4 in Battleground States

[classical liberal]

War Crimes is a stupid concept thought up by people who don't want to accept how vile and debauched human's are by nature.  War is horrid, disgusting, barbaric, debased, anamalistic, painful, and putrid; the liberals of Earth really need to get over it.

[classical liberal]

Rightwingnut, I think it exploits the moralistic consciousness of the public in order to lend an air of legitimacy to persecuting one's enemies, or a group of enemies.  A way to get that last lick in after the battle is long over.

There was an interesting section in a Carl Sagan book about that.  He was saying that humans tend to lower their enemies to be subhuman before any war.  An example is the recent war in Afghanistan,  the enemy arent Human beings who reside in the mountains of Afghanistan; the enemies are the evil, corrupt, fundamentalist, taliban terrorists.

[classical liberal]

It was Billions and Billions, a wide spectrum of topics with some interesting viewpoints.

[classical liberal]

"observational selection, also called the enumeration of favourable circumstances, or as the philosopher Francis Bacon described it, counting the hits and forgetting the misses (e.g., A state boasts of the Presidents it has produced, but is silent on its serial killers);"

The opposite happens here; the state boasts OJ and Peterson, not Bush.

[classical liberal]

It's Monica right?

In any case, how is killing immoral?  Isn't morality defined as the basically agreed to code of conduct of a society? Therefore, isn't any uniform deviation from that code simply the evolution of that code of morality?