I am talking about the Civil War not the Revolutionary War. I am talking about a war in which one people fought another people for the freedom of still yet another people.
According to your logic, this was wrong to do. There should have been no war unless the slaves themselves rose up to free themselves.
Wrong!!!!
Lisa
This is the third time I had to write this out, the site is freaking out.
Individuals forcing their will onto other individuals is wrong, no mater what justification we use to persuade ourselves. And justifications are nothing more then opinions, they don't even exist accept in the minds of those who justify it. This allows us to delude ourselves into believing that individual rights are not as important as some opinion. The reality is the result, not the justification, the result is the marginalizing of individuals no mater what the justification is.
The slave owners were not recognizing the individual rights of the individuals marginalized as slaves. The slaves should have risen up to stand up for their individual rights. Like many were doing at the time and for decades prior. And lets not forget that it was also a war to break down the power the southern plantation owners had over the government.
And being these "armies" were individuals who choose to force their will onto other individuals only furthers my point. It is the actions of individuals in war that cause war.
Yet if we look at the rest of the western world at the time they didn't need a war to end slavery. It was phased out without the need for the excess death caused in the war because of the opinion that some individuals had no "right to life".
So what you are doing is nothing more then presenting a red herring. You are saying that some war is good, or at least you are insinuating it. If you support any war you support the illusion of collectivism by removing individuality and rights from individuals. And it is in doing this you create the opinion that the lives of the dead individuals are worth less then this opinion (justification).
Just like the Nazis, their opinion (justification) was more important then the lives of the Jews. The "greater good" entailed grouping these individuals (Jews) into some collective where these individuals (Nazis) were able to justify their actions as "good". This made a group of individuals (Jews) lives worth less because they were part of this imaginary collective having no individuality or rights because of these other individuals (Nazis) justification (opinion, greater good).
