TakeYouToTasker Posted September 9, 2013 Posted September 9, 2013 On 9/9/2013 at 4:29 PM, gatorman said: So if everyone agrees murder is cool, its cool? Yes. That's what defines an accepted moral code.
DC Tom Posted September 9, 2013 Posted September 9, 2013 On 9/9/2013 at 3:16 PM, TakeYouToTasker said: He's not right. Not at all. He's judging historical norms of the 1750s-1850s through the moral lense of the mid-20th Century. That's just silly. He's right in that both Japanese and German expansionism in the early 20th Century were in a very large part driven by colonial attitudes and desires (e.g. "Lebensraum," the "Co-Prosperity Sphere"), much as Manifest Destiny was, The only "globally accepted western norm" they violated were that they attacked other Western empires.
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