When is too mcuh not enough?

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Government and Betrayal. These two words seperately form the themes for thousands of books, films, songs, and various other forms of storytelling and together form themes for thousands more. Although perhpas the idea of a government not being entirely honest or upstanding with its populace is not perhaps the most original idea to spark protests or even fictional tales, to me it seems within recent history the people have been demonstrating against or flat out demanding truth from thier leaders, elected or otherwise.
However, when I think about this particular idea in the context of the United States and our history it tryly makes me chuckle. As the man states in the above video, we have been relegated to simply choosing between two puppets with their strings tied to the same controlling hand. At the core of today's politics there is little to no TRUE difference between liberal or conservative, rebublican or democrat. What some on the right might consider the glory days of Regan's reign have long past and the new "republican" party has shifted from strict focus and drive on returing power to the states and shrinking the government, to spending money as if they could just print it (pun intended) and expanding the ever watchful eye of big brother washington (the place not the person). Sweet Land of Liberty



Now, where some of this political hair pulling between the parties can be written of as "politics", there are ocassions where I think most would agree our leaders have crossed the line. You probably think I'm gonna site a war for an example, and your right, but the fun is in guessing which one...

...Guess it yet? bet not...

okay, fine, it's World War the second. In Susan Griffin's A chourous of Stones she makes mention of a man named Israel Torres who fell victim to the testing of our contries first nuclear weapons. However, he was not alone. Being an officer in our armed forces he was given orders to march his men out to the testing site under the guise that what was really to happen was not going to be harmful. The very men he sacraficed for and dedicated his service too bluntly lied to his face. This is where the debate begins...

...Is the greater good a good enough reason?...





During the vietnam war and even after the withdrawl of troops, many believed that the only way to get the actions taken by the government to be that of there will was to demostrate and protest, in some ways violent and other not. This mentaltiy led to a great change in our culture which is still ongoing today. It even has given rise to a new debate for the modern generation...When is action taken not enough? when is it too much?...

Many believe that the current war in which we are partaking is wrong and we should simply pull the troops out as we did so many years ago. However, what displeases many of the mature is the lack of effective action taken to validate the beliefs in which these people supposedly hold.

...Have we learned from our past?

...What is inhibiting the supposed angry youth from vocing their concerns in a public and effective manner?



When philosophy is thrown into the mix the great questions become even more complex and intricate and thus taking longer to answer. As Aristotle implores us, if we are to strive for excellence in everything we do, then what is excellent about fighting our fellow man?

Is it morally acceptable to endanger or termanate the lives of a few, even a very few, for the sake of killing many more, all to serve the end of saving even more lives?

I think I need a day withS.P.A.

And that's all I have to say about that...

...for now!