Reply #49: It feels fucking weird to agree with you [View All]

You're right, it's a platitude. It makes the speaker feel wise and enlightened, like they've discovered some grand truth, and anyone else who contests it is an ignorant barbarian. It comes down to someone trying to puff their own ego by being "superior."

Fact is, they're just ignorant. Idealism has its place, and it can be good, but it should always be tempered with a dose of realism as well. There are no absolutes. When someone syas war is wrong, will they then applaud Clinton for not sending some forces to Rwanda to stand between the Hutus and Tutsis? when they say war is wrong, are they willing to let the Taliban massacre at whim in Afghanistan? if war is wrong, then was the rape of Nanking, the Holocaust and Porjamos, the mass murders in Ethiopia and Croatia "right"?