| kowenicki said: ok. so what would you have done with Hitler? |
Well I probably would have done with what was done in history but mainly because the events before it gave people no choice. Wars lead to more wars and that was the lesson in WW1 we didn't learn from history. Can't free the world of tyranny and violence by imposing it on teh world. But I would have gone to war just like everyone else but I wouldn't have had any moral justification for it whatsoever. Indeed I would be participating in a war that claims more than 50 million lives. There is no moral justification for that.
But maybe I'm copping out. Maybe there is always another choice than war itself. So really I don't know what I would have done. Not necessarily a great situation to be brought up into. Yet it is these realities of the world that aren't only perpetuated by war but caused by it. How do you morally justify perpetuation of genocide is beyond me. I'd always like to think there is another way. I may not be a religious person, but I believe Jesus would say the same thing. But I suppose we are only human.
