the ends really do sometimes justify the means. that's what makes it moral. if the only way for sandinistas to overthrow the oppressor is terror it's morally superior to the somoza oppression.
killing people is wrong, except when it's not. it's the same with terror. it's unpleasant but that's life
I mean at this point you're splitting hairs. They're saying that we must be ready to do reprehensible shit in order to stop reprehensible shit from happening but trying to justify solder of those acts is just dark and macabre. The idea is that after you do something horrible, you should never try to wipe your hands of it and I agree. If I was in a revolution and we used heinous terror out of necessity, I wouldn't want the new revolutionary government to write in it's textbooks that it was morally right. I'd want to say it was morally wrong and we regret that it had to happen.
the ends really do sometimes justify the means. that's what makes it moral. if the only way for sandinistas to overthrow the oppressor is terror it's morally superior to the somoza oppression. killing people is wrong, except when it's not. it's the same with terror. it's unpleasant but that's life
I mean at this point you're splitting hairs. They're saying that we must be ready to do reprehensible shit in order to stop reprehensible shit from happening but trying to justify solder of those acts is just dark and macabre. The idea is that after you do something horrible, you should never try to wipe your hands of it and I agree. If I was in a revolution and we used heinous terror out of necessity, I wouldn't want the new revolutionary government to write in it's textbooks that it was morally right. I'd want to say it was morally wrong and we regret that it had to happen.