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Originally Posted by StrangeLee
Peacekeeping is bad enough, and war would be even worse. As for the university students and graduates who claim to know everything, and think they understand conflict. Well, I could make a comment about this, but it would only make them upset.
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If this was directed at me.. then let me say that I have not attempted to understand conflict. I have no idea what it feels like to be in a battle and I have no desire to know. Furthermore... if you are going to defend the dropping of the a bombs then I think you should also defend the gassing of Jews in Auschwitz and the rape of Nanking. After all... these too were carried out in circumstances in which we cannot comprehend.
Experience is as important as analysis... but it doesnt trump analysis.
The argument is a common one.
Those that have no experience have no sense of the reality of the conflict which is true to an extent. But it can also work the other way when it comes to discussion of morality in that that those that have experience are TAINTED with the reality of it.