| | Dennis Hardin wrote: "Robert, This is a rehash of territory we have covered ... you are ... revealing a gross inability to grasp how abstract ideas (specifically egoism) apply to the real world. ... to stop the senseless sacrifice of American soldiers and prevent the massive loss of innocent American lives in the future.
Dennis, unlike TSI for instance, I connect the dots the same way you do on this. I also understand TAS's (Bob Bidinotto's) point of view. The "just war theory" is not irrational, but it is unreasonable. Where I have the greater disconnect, however, is not so much with them (though there is that) as it is with your quips, e.g., calling them The Gutless Society. That is truly unjust. I also stop short of saying "them" whenever I can. I can identify Robert with TAS, but I have hard time parsing Christopher within or away from all that is published, just for instance. So, we can take TNI has a single piece, and, so, too, with the features on the TAS website, and speak to "their" philosophical style or ideological assumptions. Beyond that, however, even on the website or in the magazine, signed articles are the statements of the author. Whether and to what extent everyone on the masthead agrees with every word is a moot point.
Stuff publishered here on RoR makes me recoil --- but at the same time just for instance my own views on Katrina ("The Big Apple versus the Big Easy") also made some here cringe. And, yet, here we all are... you, Bob, me, TSI,... So, there must be some common element(s).
It is more important to build on the shared values than to alienate the few friends you really could have.
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