<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=LeoCasey@aol.com href="mailto:LeoCasey@aol.com">LeoCasey@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:26 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Just Wars </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=3>In a message dated 05/10/2001 3:40:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, <BR><A href="mailto:owner-lbo-talk-digest@lists.panix.com">owner-lbo-talk-digest@lists.panix.com</A> writes: <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">Name one person in the history of the world that has the moral authority to <BR>inaugurate death. Not political power, moral authority. <BR><BR> Ian <BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>Spartacus <BR>Nat Turner <BR>Denmark Vessey <BR>Gabriel Prosser <BR>Toussaint L'Ouverture <BR>Any inhabitant of the Warsaw ghetto <BR><BR>The list could be greatly expanded, but I think the point has been made. <BR><FONT size=2>============</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Nope, sorry it hasn't. Nor, I believe could it, for to do so would be to achieve moral certitude. In the absence of moral certitude there can be no moral authority which is why moral skepticism is a necessary, but not sufficient, reason for a potentially peaceful society.....The people you mention, however "noble" their cause may have been, had no more authority to command or persuade others to engage in killing than did their nemeses. Nor did those who were commanded or persuaded have the moral authority to alienate their responsibility to refrain from inaugurating violence against another human being, any more than their nemeses did......</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Ian</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>