Thursday, July 20, 2006
The Ends and the Means
BBC: Mr Bush summed up his opposition to the bill on ethical grounds. "This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others," he said.
NYTimes: BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 19 — Gunmen kidnapped as many as 20 employees of a government agency that oversees Sunni mosques on Tuesday and Wednesday, grabbing them on their way home from work at ad-hoc checkpoints north of Baghdad, an official said.
Throughout the country, at least 49 people were killed or found dead on Wednesday, including an Interior Ministry official who was shot in his car at 8 a.m.
Here again is a reason I'll never be a politician. I can't begin to figure out the morality of issues when it's going to cost a life. I can see that our government doesn't want to take innocent lives for any medical benefits that would help people, but it doesn't mind taking innocent lives for stuff like whatever we're killing folks for in Iraq this week.
I think we're now killing folks over there for democracy. Very much like the democracy that got Hezbollah into office in Lebanon where the Israelis, Lebanese, Syrians, and Irans, among others are killing people because they may or may not want democracy. I think they'd rather be under a theocracy where people have to abide by the power's to be's beliefs. In which case, they'd no longer have the choice of believing what they want to believe. Which would mean those leaders could tell their own people, that the taking of innocent life (as defined by some theocratic decree) would be forbidden especially if that would help find medical benefits. Hmmmm.
