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Originally posted by taxwonk
Spanky, Post 2517:
What liberals fail to realize is that the greatest evil occurs when the individual can be sacrificed for the good of society. That is what "dictatorship of the prolietariate" is all about. If our rights come from man, then those rights can be taken away by man. So when government wants to improve on the state body politic, and can suspend individual rights to do so, that is when you can justify killing millions of people.
However, if rights are God given, and cannot be taken away for the common good, it is much harder to start exterminating people for the common good.
If there is a universal moral code that says we have rights then mass killings are hard to justify. But if all morality is relative, rights are just given by man and are relative and can be taken away for the common good (like in a communist society) that is when the killing fields get organized.
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Can you not see the difference that in one instance a government is killing millions of its own citizens intentionally for social engineering purposes. In another instance we are trying to remove a government in a war and in order to do it many innocent people die?
In one instance we don't want to kill the innocent people, but if we don't take action were they become collateral damage, millions more may die and millions will be enslaved for years.
In the other instance, the government not only does it not care that innocent people are being killed, but is intentionally killing innocent people, not to save more lives, but to reach some sort of "social good".
Intentions and results are everthing.
