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YerArseInParsley
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Re: An analogy
Oct 17, 2002, 12:10
Yes, I'd cut off the water if that was the case, realising full well that would lead to innocent deaths, if that was the only way to stop our nation inflicting civilian deaths in an unjust war.

However, no deaths are necessary. The media scare stories last blockade were just scare stories. A blockade can be politically successful over a very short period and oil tankers can be negotiated through as they were previously.

To use another metaphor, would you consider it immoral for sabateurs to attack any essential resource inside Nazi Germany during the war - knowing full well that it would lead to German deaths ?
Is it more moral to stand back and watch the civilians of Bagdhad get pummeled into submission - due to the dangers of urban warfare that has been the standard method of taking a city for the past 60 years, bombard it until it surrenders.

Even indirect violence such as cutting off essential resources is to be fought against, but in a violent situation I believe using minimum force to end that violence is legitamate.
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