2011-07-24
Love Thy Enemy
To all those who believe loving your enemy means allowing the enemy to destroy our civilization ...
Note that there is a concept of "enemy". It doesn't say "do not have enemies". It means that when you vanquish your enemy, you don't be cruel to them. But they still are (or were) enemies and they still do (or did) need to be defeated. Your enemy is those who would create injustice in the world (such as Saddam ordering the rape of Iraqi women). Your enemy needs to be vanquished. Once vanquished, your enemy should face justice, not cruelty. At the end of the day, your enemy is a natural animal reacting to his environment according to his genes and his imperfect logic skills and is not evil. His genes have evolved to be a subjugator etc and it requires careful conditioning if you want to stop the effect of that genetic programming.
Bottom line - DO NOT ALLOW INJUSTICE IF YOU CAN REASONABLY PREVENT IT.
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Note that there is a concept of "enemy". It doesn't say "do not have enemies". It means that when you vanquish your enemy, you don't be cruel to them. But they still are (or were) enemies and they still do (or did) need to be defeated. Your enemy is those who would create injustice in the world (such as Saddam ordering the rape of Iraqi women). Your enemy needs to be vanquished. Once vanquished, your enemy should face justice, not cruelty. At the end of the day, your enemy is a natural animal reacting to his environment according to his genes and his imperfect logic skills and is not evil. His genes have evolved to be a subjugator etc and it requires careful conditioning if you want to stop the effect of that genetic programming.
Bottom line - DO NOT ALLOW INJUSTICE IF YOU CAN REASONABLY PREVENT IT.
# posted by Paul Edwards @ 20:26 
