GaeaHorned
SofiaDragon
I just can't agree. We don't arrest people because they have a high probability of commiting a crime, it is unconstitutional. If there is any doubt we spare convicted criminals of the death penalty. (I'm for the death penalty for repeat offenders / multiple murders by the by.)
Yet we don't leave our doors unlocked, pass out guns and ammo for free, and use a dumpster as a bank. The government has already pre-emptively struck against the society by means of law.
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How can you pass judgement on a belief?
How do you know the judgement was passed based on belief?
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Now, mobilizing armed forces in such a way that they are a threat to our borders/people is not a belief, that's proof. If we hear about someone doing something we have every right to stop them.
They've been screaming about "Kill Americans!" for years, I see that as a declaration of war/clear danger. Not to mention all that Anti-air weapons Iraq keep throwing at our planes.
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Catch that bomber before the thing goes off, but not before he made the bomb. We'd have to let him go and maybe pay damages if we caught him before he made the bomb, since we are stepping all over his rights.
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(Then again, the patriot act says we have no rights, so I guess it would be OK.)
If you are a conservative and said a line like that, your a** would be banned/warned.
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For a country, things get rather obvious. They move their military to such and such a location and we say: Yo, back off there! That's our territory! Then they don't and we blast them like an angry farmer pointing a 12 guage at a tresspasser.
If that's the criteria, the fact they fire at our fighter is justified enough to blow them back to hell.
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If they hint that they might do it, we respond in kind and hint that they might get their tail kicked.
Well, we've been hinting back and forth for awhile now. You can only get so close to someone's nose without getting sucker punched.
No, acts that are criminal occured before people thought to make laws against doing them. For example, someone had to steal before people established stealing is upsetting.
Passive attitudes is what made the US great. Mostly when they go into a war they have no business doing for political reasons, they get their a** handed to them. Inversely, if they sit on their tails until some people get killed their luck in the war gets better. Such things as WW1, WW2 and the Spanish-American war are perfect examples. I admit in the last case nobody can prove the Spanish responsible as the strocity was a lie created by news papers but the classic 'wounded innocent' is the role the states excells at.