Friday, June 20, 2008

Iraq and the Homeless

Iraq was probably the morally correct thing to do. Helping a homeless person is probably the morally correct thing to do. If someone gives change to half the homeless people they see each day it doesn't mean they are a hypocrit. Maybe those could do something for them. Even then it still doesn't make them helping those people the wrong thing to do. What if we have actually hindered the Iraq war by not throwing the full power of the army behind it? But then again, at what point is something outside our country morally important enough for us to sacrifice young Americans. It's the in-group out-group effect. What if we considered the whole world one country? What if every part of the world was American soil? Then it would be okay to send in the national guard? If America has to be the police of the world then that's what we have to do. It's a thankless job. But we are such a well off country because of it so we can't complain.

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