TakeYouToTasker Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 So if everyone agrees murder is cool, its cool? Yes. That's what defines an accepted moral code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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