911

Will you accept being a collateral damage if it was for a bigger good?

You are called to die in Iraq so that terrorism can be stopped...


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Reign_Cryogen

It's probably better to accept that you're not going to live forever and make your peace with that fact.

Life is a lot less stressful when you clear that particular hump.

911

If you are the collateral damage; would you feel that the one inflicting the damage is morally without blame?

911

Will you accept being a collateral damage if it was for a bigger good?

Like the poor chap who was sent by King David to the war front so that David could take his wife and as a result of that union we have King Soloman and according to the new testament; Jesus.

Or the sons and daughters and cattle and sheep of Job who was killed so that Job can be proven to be faithful and a Bible story of Job could be written.

And in the NT

It was not because his father sinned or he sinned but it was so that God may be glorified.

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Huon

If The Collateral Damage Was YOU, YOU would'nt have the opportunity of complaining... A dead person is dead, and goes (perhaps) to the paradise.

thegdin

in the examples you provided, no, i wouldnt want to be "collateral" damage for a greater good. actually, i dont think youre collateral damage if you die for a greater good. collateral damage is a side effect. you dying so that i may live isnt colateral damage. its a sacrifice. im not colateral damage if i jump onto a hand granade. im sacrifice. etc etc.

if you were a german civilian living next to a tank factory in 1944 germany. you were collateral damage. except for the psychological effect, collateral damage does no good at all. its just a side effect of the initial act.


and by the way,, this "good" is just a matter of perspective.

thegdin

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.p...27#post3001427



2 separate but very similar posts. what are u really wanting to discuss?

other than someone going to war being collateral damage. which i dont really believe they are.

911

I mean if YOU were one of those cited in the OP; would you have felt better knowing that it was for a greater good?

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If you did not die but suffered and consequently understood that it was for a greater good?

Would knowing that it was for a greater good make you feel any better?

911

Setting aside perceptions of good and evil; say something bad happened to you and you are very sore about it. Subsequently you found out that it was for a greater good; would you feel better?

911

The other one had Bible quotes in it but here I want to know if "Greater Good" justify putting somebody through suffering even if that person had nothing to do with the objectives of the "Good." Is it morally correct to focus on the greater good even if some poor soul suffer as a consequence.