in which such things as mass bombing of civilians, the use of hostages, torture to obtain confessions, secret prisons, execution without trial, floggings with rubber truncheons, drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics, treachery, bribery, and quislingism [reconciliation with fascism] are normal and morally neutral, even admirable when they are done in a large and bold way.” ["Raffles and Miss Blandish," 1944]
Funny, innit?
-B.
Angelus Novus wrote:
"http://gegenstandpunkt.com/english/war-morality.html
"International outcry over torture in American military prisons
Morality in Wartime and its Use as a Weapon of Critique
[translated from GegenStandpunkt: Politische Vierteljahreszeitschrift 2-04, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich]