[ExI] The Evils of the West

[BillK]

On 4/15/09, Lee Corbin wrote:
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>  Right. The extreme actions being suggested by
>  "some people" here, such as expulsions of
>  dangerous minorities, would in effect "rise
>  above principle". But, as was argued, sometimes
>  in history that seems to be the right thing to
>  do (e.g. what Lincoln had to do to win, what
>  FDR was afraid of, how the Catholics saved
>  France from Protestants in 1572, etc.).
>


Your examples are, of course, examples of wartime ferocity.

Your original discussion was about initiating a peacetime atrocity.

You'll have to declare war on Muslims first, for your original
suggestion to be implemented and supported by the population.

BillK