To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.debateOpen lugnet.off-topic.debate in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Debate / 19401
19400  |  19402
Subject: 
Re: I'm just going to take a back seat.... Re: You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:44:20 GMT
Viewed: 
736 times
  
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:

So I'm asking with all seriousness and no veil of ulterior motive--what do
we do?  Justice must prevail, if we are to hold to our own ideals.  How do
we achieve justice in this situation?

Why is it the job of the US to bring justice to the world?



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: I'm just going to take a back seat.... Re: You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
 
(...) Well, my def'n of 'we' woudn't necessarily be "the US", for then it woudn't be we, as in me... but I digress... ;) I was thinking more along the lines of "if we (as in 'civilized society' whether it be the UN, or such other institution) see (...) (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Why us? and if us, why this way?
 
(...) (URL) always agree with Hanson but he's right this time. Even if you think there's a moral obligation (that the US somehow has gotten stuck with ) to right every wrong (which I do not! I go ONLY as far as saying we ought to clean up the messes (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: I'm just going to take a back seat.... Re: You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
 
(...) It is not, and since 12.09.02[1] there has been even less of a stomach for it. It is everyone’s "job" to bring justice to the world... at the micro and macro level. Invading Iraq is not "justice", nor is bribing other dictators in order to get (...) (22 years ago, 17-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: I'm just going to take a back seat.... Re: You Can Lead A Horse To Water....
 
(...) So I'm asking with all seriousness and no veil of ulterior motive--what do we do? Justice must prevail, if we are to hold to our own ideals. How do we achieve justice in this situation? Dave K (22 years ago, 14-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

64 Messages in This Thread:






















Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR