tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post3953744716101688657..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: Last Week They Piled on the SCHIP Kid; This Week They'll Try to Bury NobelS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-25179554130859772532007-10-12T16:30:00.000-05:002007-10-12T16:30:00.000-05:00I think that Bob's intention is to point to some f...I think that Bob's intention is to point to some fatal irony among peacemakers that makes them more loathsome than warmakers. Of course, there is at least as much irony and monster-creation among warmakers, because we are all human, and thus full of irony, limitation, and transgression.<BR/><BR/>Bob has a tendency to make war more noble and duty-oriented than peace, despite the fact that people everywhere assume that once the battle begins a Pandora's Box of atrocities and grim results is loosed. I would grant that despite their best intentions peacemakers can cause real problems if Bob would stop acting like war and peace are judged on a double-standard.<BR/><BR/>There are some peacemakers who are just as ready to spill their blood, go to prison, suffer and die for their cause as soldiers. There is as much nobility in that as there is irony.<BR/><BR/>He sees the inventor of dynamite sponsoring a peace award as at least ironic (perhaps hypocritical?). But is it any more ironic than a philanthropist contributing a lot of ill-gotten gains to charity to salve his conscience? Doesn't it contradict the mission of philanthropy to fund it on the backs of other people's suffering? Sure it does. When that happens in war, it's called "double effect."<BR/><BR/>The world is full of irony. It becomes double the irony when some folks half that irony.S-townMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-78253933010246180452007-10-12T12:15:00.000-05:002007-10-12T12:15:00.000-05:00Word, Mike. Frankly I didn't understand the point ...Word, Mike. Frankly I didn't understand the point of his post. Was he being ironic? I mean, are Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa really "mediocre?" I guess all awards are overly self-congratulatory in one way or another but isn't it better to at least strive for peace then to sit around and do nothing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com