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Originally posted by Skunks
Mind you, I fully understand what you're saying in the current context. I just think it's a particularly limited and short-sighted policy, applicable only to situations in which you're clearly on the side of Good and Light.
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Actually it's a tactical policy applicable to situations where you're under direct attack. Which is that "current context" you're talking about, no?
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If our goal is to survive, wouldn't we be best off doing some sort of mutually-beneficial-make-people-like-and-respect-us thing?
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Sure. :-) We'll just be...*nice*, and everybody will like us. Everybody. Except that tiny minority who have already declared 1) we're devilspawn and 2) they're ordained by God to set us to rights by the sword.
1) isn't really that big a deal, it's 2) that calls for some more energetic action.
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Originally posted by NicName
Is there any circumstance in which you don't have the moral high ground?
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Doggonit, I must have missed the episode where self-defense became immoral.