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Originally posted by clarkgoble: All life is sacred, born and unborn YET I avocate the deaths of my enemy, or those I deem not innocent. I don't think those are intrinsically incompatible positions. I may think all life is sacred. I may feel it appropriate to kill in certain circumstances. I would hope that those Americans in Iraq killing the Iraqis are doing so with an appreciation of the lives they are taking. I suspect many of them will remember the faces and bodies the rest of their lives. Sometimes killing is necessary. It doesn't mean that the lives shed are somehow undeserving of life. It just means that sometimes horrible things are the only solution. We ought to shed a tear and a prayer for the Iraqis just as much as we do for our own dead servicemen. |
Ideosynosis:
1. The ability to hold two apparently contradictory concepts as true
2. combining two separate distinct and opposing ideologies into a third.
By definition, though, the ideosynoptic person would NOT view them as contradictory, but others would/might.