When we avert our eyes in horror to USA blowing the hands off a little girl in Afghanistan, or any other horror we engage in (for no particular reason), the tens of thousands maimed and killed, and cover it with a heartwarming story of how we fly one child to USA to have reconstructive surgery, we welcome the relief from the horror. But the indecent act preceded the noble lie. We do not need to be lied to if indecency is not first advanced on our account.
Sozhenitsyn spoke of "our right not to know." There are things that happen that we ought no be apprised of, since the very idea should sicken and insensitize us. There are hard men with grim resolve who deal with the child rapist, the rest of us need not know.
Those who first advance the noble lie use the false charge to propose a false dilemma, and the execute the lie: they hate our freedom, we must hunt them all down. Now we will search you.
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Blowing up a girls hand is just one of the injustices that happen every day in a large number of countries. Shariah law, honor killings... and so on.
I would say that the world will look back on decisions of the us and its allies in centuries to coke and history will show they were made for the greater good. No doubt the tactics employed today including the false pretences under which surveillance is advanced are menacing and undignified. But we are not too far evolved from humans who empower slavery. People will do whatever is necessary to preserve their may of life.
History shows that blowing up a few girls hands is small price to pay compared to the consequences of the wrong regime. Imagines if Hitler had ruled Europe.
If you look back on history the injustices
'A girl losing her hands is a small price for you to pay, not for her to pay.'
People die on the job in construction and in traffic accidents so we can pursue our way of life. Wars are progressed in part to protect our way of life too. Should we give up transport and buildings as well as wars?
I think there is a difference between a worker killed in an industrial accident and a child harmed in an optional, elective war.
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