tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486390395644579022.post5412270922465810577..comments2020-01-16T14:24:54.513+03:00Comments on Youthful Follies: Apocalypsevacuus viatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07511253135488142808noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486390395644579022.post-71022444425087172702014-09-03T22:26:05.198+03:002014-09-03T22:26:05.198+03:00Another brief way of summing up this post.
If God...Another brief way of summing up this post.<br /><br />If God exists and is good, then he has no cause (no agenda, no plan, no purpose that requires humans to agitate and do stuff--i.e. kill one another).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486390395644579022.post-35452756073689597112014-09-03T22:19:59.027+03:002014-09-03T22:19:59.027+03:00A practical heuristic that I derive from thoughts ...A practical heuristic that I derive from thoughts like those in this post.<br /><br />If the only thing that can be said for a course of action is that it serves national interest, then I suspect that action to be immoral.<br /><br />"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Yes. The unfortunate utterance of John F. Kennedy ("ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country") needs to be scrapped. The unfortunate truth is that your country does whatever it does (mostly kill and imprison) by committing crimes. Ask neither what you can do for it, nor what it can do for you, but how you can make it do as little for anyone (yourself included) as possible. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com