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Originally Posted by host
Rosa Parks had no role in originating the Alabama racial segregation law she was arrested for breaking:
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks/
The US government, on the other hand, was directly responsible for defining aggressive war as a crime against humanity, and prosecuted others for that crime, and then executed them after finding them guilty. |
If, in some bizarre parallel universe, Rosa Parks
had had a hand in the segregation law, it'd still be wrong and she'd still be right to defy it. Her best course of action when approached on that bus would be to... wait for it... flip-flop.
Likewise,
if Iraq counts as the aggressive war that the United States helped criminalize, then it doesn't immediately follow that our mistake was to defy the law. Our mistake might've been in the wording of the law. Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and our second invasion of Iraq might both fall under the category of 'aggressive war' - depending on definition - and they might even both be immoral, but let's not pretend that they're identical and that you must accept both or reject both in order to avoid the nauseating stench of hypocrisy.
Besides, hypocrisy
in the right direction is a
good thing.
Laws can be worth breaking. Even when the lawbreaker was once the legislator.