RE: Iraq; a question of oil.
>People always talk
>about the American government value their own citizen’s
>lives more, and i say isn’t that obvious. My government
>have the responsibility to first take care of my well being
>than anybody else. If they can help others, they should,
>but not jeapordize American lives unless its worth the noble
>cause. If every country think like this, then you won’t see
>the abuse of human rights all over the world…instead you
>gotta blame the US.
Of course all countries tend to value the lifes of their citizens first. Inmoral but normal. I feel it´s pretty good defending our own citizens, and I don´t put any country as an example, probably the US comes out because it´s the most powerful country in the world, and it´s the one with more capacity to defend its citizens. I always feel upset when for example a plane crashes and the media usually say….”fortunately no Spaniards on board”…so no problem. This just drives me crazy. I suppose you´re right in thinking that defending your nationals for a noble cause could be worthy. But I suppose here comes the problem….What´s a noble cause?. I am sure, that any thug blowing civilians in Israel is convinced that his cause it´s worthy and it´s defending his citizens with a noble cause. It´s hard to decide, if defending our citizens upon the lifes of other serve to defend the human rights. I think a democracy with high values, being Europe, the US, Japan, should make a careful decision and balance everthing. If everything is global, human life consideration and appreciation should be global and universal. That´s the best way to defend human rights everywhere. Of course, dear Vortex, I don´t have an oppinion in that point, and my views are personal.:-) I still remember when we simply ignored the Tutsi-Hutus massacre some years ago. Just a few days on TV.
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