Altruized to Death
An article in the WSJ concerning the methods and means by which yellow journalists along with tin-pot terrorist leaders and their allies in the United Nations form a perfect storm of hypocrisy to keep Israel from defending herself.
This bit really got me going:
That is moral relativism at its worst. As usual, the people least willing to fight -- journalists and academics -- are the most outspoken about the "proper" way to fight a war. I’d consider it karmic balance to shoot through a child in order to hit anyone who spews forth such sophistic emotional tripe.
Ultimately, the downfall of Western society will rest on their heads. The barbarians will once again rule the world, we'll fall into another period of ignorance and savagery, and people will wonder -- just as Europeans of the Dark Ages did when looking at Roman ruins -- "What the hell happened? We had it so good." I'll tell you what will happen: altruism.
Robert Heinlein: "Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
That other great penman named Robert, of the Frost persuasion, put it more succinctly: "Good fences make good neighbors."
The altruist hates fences, but wants everybody to be good neighbors. Given enough altruism, all the fence builders die off, the solipsists take the reins to run the horses into the ground, (pardon the mixed metaphor, please), and it's not many generations before Darwin takes over: you get alpha males ruling autocratically from on high, while all the beta-male altruists and intelligentsia hide in cellars, scrounge for food, and generally bemoan the political inequality and brutal oppression that's just Their Bad Luck. It is a small source of amusement to me that many of the leftist dullards in modern academia see that situation as already extant. Boy, are they in for a shock...
Fortunately, events look to be proceeding at a pace where I can reasonably expect to die of old age before the well-meaning but ignorant social engineers have managed to bring us full circle back to the bad old days. I wish your children luck... they're gonna need it.
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(Hat-tip to Vizigoth)
This bit really got me going:
Last week, before the tanks had begun rolling into Gaza, the journalist Tom Segev put it bluntly in a column he wrote in Ha'aretz. "A child in Sderot is the same as a child in Gaza," he wrote, "and anyone who harms either is evil."
That is moral relativism at its worst. As usual, the people least willing to fight -- journalists and academics -- are the most outspoken about the "proper" way to fight a war. I’d consider it karmic balance to shoot through a child in order to hit anyone who spews forth such sophistic emotional tripe.
Ultimately, the downfall of Western society will rest on their heads. The barbarians will once again rule the world, we'll fall into another period of ignorance and savagery, and people will wonder -- just as Europeans of the Dark Ages did when looking at Roman ruins -- "What the hell happened? We had it so good." I'll tell you what will happen: altruism.
Robert Heinlein: "Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."
That other great penman named Robert, of the Frost persuasion, put it more succinctly: "Good fences make good neighbors."
The altruist hates fences, but wants everybody to be good neighbors. Given enough altruism, all the fence builders die off, the solipsists take the reins to run the horses into the ground, (pardon the mixed metaphor, please), and it's not many generations before Darwin takes over: you get alpha males ruling autocratically from on high, while all the beta-male altruists and intelligentsia hide in cellars, scrounge for food, and generally bemoan the political inequality and brutal oppression that's just Their Bad Luck. It is a small source of amusement to me that many of the leftist dullards in modern academia see that situation as already extant. Boy, are they in for a shock...
Fortunately, events look to be proceeding at a pace where I can reasonably expect to die of old age before the well-meaning but ignorant social engineers have managed to bring us full circle back to the bad old days. I wish your children luck... they're gonna need it.
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(Hat-tip to Vizigoth)
posted by Jar(egg)head at 14:24
1 Comments:
I firmly believe that the Israelis have every right to defend themselves and to continue to drive into the Gaza until Hamas surrenders. Hamas is the DEMOCRATICALLY elected ruling party of Palestine. That means that the people chose them by 64% to rule them. That means the descisions they make( such as attacking a neighboring country) is mandated by the will of the people. This open declaration of war means that the other country has every right to attack and defeat the ruling class of the aggressor nation. Sometimes "innocents" are hurt, but if the ruling party, who has stated on numerous occasions its desire to destroy Israel, was put there by the will of the people, then there are no innocents.
This also goes into my opinion that modern warfare is too clean and surgical. People expect it to be like a video game and that no one but armed combatants being hurt. My thinking is that maybe we have done ourselves a disservice in making war so nice. It should be bloody, violent, and everyone should be affected by it. Maybe if it was, we would not ask for it so much. I know that sounded peacenik, but as a famous general once said, war should be hell, or we may grow too fond of it.
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