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Originally Posted by dc_dux
will...I would suggest that making a pragmatic decision does not make a person a "lesser of evils."
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I saw the movie "Exorcist: the Beginning" a few weeks ago. It's not a bad movie, fairly decent actually. Part of the origin story for the main character, a Priest who has had serious problems with his faith, is during his service to the church during the time when the SS was in it's height of power in Germany. A particularly sick soldier takes the priest outside in front of his church to see a group of people ranging from children to elder, all jewish. "Shoot one of them." After much shouting and threatening, he decides the prudent choice—the only choice—is to shoot the older people in order to save the young. It was a pragmatic choice, but it also made him a murderer. He had to compromise on his morals in order to make such a pragmatic choice, a choice that ultimately still left innocent people victimized by his actions. He was being bipartisan with monsters. You don't compromise with monsters.
A presidential man should not compromise with enemies of his people.