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Originally Posted by powerclown
I'll say this much and bow out of the numbers party: all is fair in love and war. May the best man win.
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This is part of what I was getting at in #201. If "all is fair", as you say, then on what basis do you make any of the moral judgments you make in the rest of the thread? If you believe that, then you believe that there is no morality in international relations, that in times of war there is no law but the law of the jungle, the law that might makes right. In itself this is a coherent belief, but you cannot hold to this and simultaneously denounce or praise either side. In fact, you cannot hold to this and make any moral judgments about war at all.