starcraft said:
Dodece said:
I know that for some morality is merely a luxury item that can be discarded when it is inconvenient. Doing the right thing is its own reward is not just a silly cliche. Doing the right thing maintains ones own self respect, and keeps them on the just path. Fail to live up to that which you hold sacrosanct and you are truly lost.
America must own up to its failures. Otherwise it and its people will become lost. The path to hell is easily found by those that avert their eyes. In a sense a nation stands or falls on its values, and what those represents. No doing the right thing is the right thing to do. How can you prove the justness of your cause if your will to behave unjustly all in the name of convenience.
Want to see what happens when justice is sacrificed in the name of convenience. Just read your history it is full of nations and empires that were all too willing to cast aside their ideals, because it was so convenient to do so. Ideals are the foundation deny them, and they will crumble at your feet. |
Tell that too the once-powerful Europe 
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I am a moral guy, and I want to always do the right thing, but after reading this (Dodece's comments), I have to say, you need a reality check.
Every major country was built, and kept because of a lack or morality. They all fell due to a breakdown in there economy, and in every case, it was because we injected morality into Government.
People are starving, let's make the government fix it. People need healthcare, let's make the government fix it. These moral choices have, and will, bring down every government that ever destroyed itself.
Look at my Jefferson quote in my sig. It's really about morality.
