[MD] Intellect battles the[historical] barbarians

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
I don't accept that blame is due. But, of course, like you said, you don't 
want to point blame, do you?

[Arlo]
Blame is never due us, Platt. We're the Holy U.S. of A.!

[Platt]
So hypocrisy has something to do with rational thinking? Pray tell, what?

[Arlo]
Give me an example of a hypocritical position justified by rational 
thinking. Can you do it?

[Arlo previously]
A real MOQ sin is attempting to justify everything the US has done with 
some blanket cry to "social over biological".

[Platt]
"Everything the US has done." Talk about distortion!

[Arlo]
Give me an example of something the US has done you consider immoral.

[Platt]
You mean none of those things would have happened if we had stayed on the 
sidelines?

[Arlo]
I mean I reject both your claim that it was "noble intentions" that guided 
these actions, and that there was not a moral path to choose from (which we 
did not).

[Platt]
So the attack on the twin towers was justified because we got involved in 
the war between Iraq and Iran? Is that where you're going with this 
cockamamie scenario?

[Arlo]
Immoral behavior cannot be based on immoral behavior. They have no 
justification for committing evil to counter a perceived evil. And neither 
do we. What we did historically was wrong. What they did was wrong. The 
hatred and unrest and morass of the present situation is the result of two 
sides more interested in a Holier-Than-Thou pissing match. But we've been 
down that road too.

[Platt]
Right. And we should have surrendered in WW II to the Germans and the Japs, 
and to the Chinese in Korea because intellectual values just aren't worth 
fighting and dying for. Why am I not surprised?

[Arlo]
Kindly point out in my words where I said this.