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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not directly related to the stated question but addressing the implied question of why we should act when these countries refuse to...

If a man is lying injured on the road and four people walk by him ignoring his plight does that inoculate you, the fifth, from a moral obligation to help him? [/quote]

The problem is there is probably a tiny percent chance that the man lying on the ground might accept your kindness, and then bludgeon you and your friends and relatives to death. We can't ignore the suffering, we just need to a better way to detect faking because even if it chances are small, the risks are high. This gets at my other thread. I think we do have a moral obligation to help, but I cannot fathom how we vet these people. It's not like evil Assad is going to give us all his records. I have not checked that thread since this morning so maybe there is an update that can make me feel like we have a pretty good system in place.[/quote]

You have managed to encapsulate the suspicious mindset of today's GOP quite nicely.  Gotta watch out for everybody out there who's after your shit.  What a terribly insular experience that must be.[/quote]

+1.  I believe this latest world event is exposing this mindset among many of the "regular" people who identify with the GOP/conservative movement.  I cannot imagine my whole world view, and thus active choices, was driven from a place of fear.  [/quote]

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