They do however have a right to fight back with everything they’re worth, and if they have no right to exist, then there are no restrictions upon how they fight to protect themselves, correct? That immediately justifies Palestine fighting against Israel since no country has a right to exist, and therefore, all countries are justified in fighting against those they view as a direct threat to themselves. That thought process lacks sound reasoning, and, ironically enough, the only Darwinism you seem to support is the social Darwinist form, one of the most historically repulsive forms of justifying imperialism and oppression of weaker nations. For nations with moral values, we are inclined to fight AGAINST what is assumed to be nature, just as Christianity is supposed to fight against sin and human nature itself. The reason little nations even gain a right to exist is due to coalitions that protect them from outside invasion.
Things like NATO, the UN, they prevent the wars by threatening their aggressors with it if they try to attack, precisely the same way as normal nations in your social Darwinist thought process. International coalitions that keep the smaller ones alive doesn’t even ignore your own thought process, it simply moves it up to the level of coalition vs coalition instead of nation vs nation. America, while being extremely imperialistic in its economic sphere, is an improvement from what was around before, we can value national sovereignty of others while maintaining our own interests, all at the expense of being inside the international community, as is natural whenever you have won both World Wars and have the strongest military on earth. I’m not a dreamer either, that’s what happens right now, I’m suggesting what’s happening and working right now, because isolating our nation doesn’t make us safer, it just throws the issues of the future to the next few generations. China and Russia are working to phase us out of the world, and isolating will drastically ham… Read more
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