Fundamentalism (General)

by David Turell , Wednesday, November 05, 2008, 16:41 (5658 days ago) @ Walter

One other point. You say the UN is toothless. One of the reasons why its toothless is that the major powere like the US are only prepared to go along with decisions they like. If the world's most powerful nation flouts the authority of the UN over Iraq, just as Israel ... backed by the US ... flouts UN resolutions over illegal settlements, there's no chance of ANY international organization having teeth. The same applies to all the major powers, of course, but that's no excuse for the US. If you believe in democracy, you can't pick and choose which bits you'll go along with. - I agree with you exactly, which is why I raised the issue of nation ethics. Individual person ethics are somewhat controlled by societal rules, and the fear of anarchy if we have full out libertarianism. How do we get to a worldwide set of nation ethics, if we can? My feeling is that our emotional set is still in the hunter-gatherer phase (only 8,000 years ago) and group-think at a national level is still set there. The discomforts within the EU are a good example: they yelled at the Irish being the first to support banks, and now they are all doing it. - As for Iraq: yes, I supported the idea when our troops went in. The post-war handling was atrocious. It seems no one studied how post-war Germany was handled in the 1940's. There were huge resistance groups that were quickly decimated.