----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Objective Evil
> At 02:41 PM 8/8/04, Dan Minette wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 2:10 PM > >Subject: Objective Evil > > > > > > > The Catholic Church would argue that no, one should not... evil to > >prevent evil is still > > > evil. > > > > > > In reality, all the Catholic Church is saying here is the simple moral > > > precept that "the ends do not justify the means." > > > >I may not have been as clear to others as I was to myself in the last post. > >What I am saying is that the just war argument is very much a "ends > >justifies the means" argument. > > > > Maybe so. Who decides if the ends justify the means? We do. We need to balance the wrong we do by not stopping something and the wrong we do when we do stop it and try to understand which action would better fit "love thy neighbor as oneself." This is one reason honest people can differ on war. IMHO, dishonest people deny that they are making that tradeoff. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
