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    Default Re: Civilization, War, and so on.

    Quote Originally Posted by Me
    It sounds like you conflate 'civilized' with 'civilization' and 'civilization' with 'nation'. This is not a normal approach.

    So any nation engaged in war is a bad?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bijo
    I don't like normal approaches

    Anyway, I don't necessarily meant nation but more the general picture of it: a nation, or a country, or a state, a civilization, a people. Basically I still stand by what I said in the previous post(s) for now, though it might change.

    To answer the question you asked... hmm, if I stand by what I meant, then the simple answer is probably that I must ask you about what exactly your question means. I was specifically referring to an aggressive "civilization" and being imperialist / expansionist, not just a nation / civilization / people etc. engaged in war.

    But to quickly post as I fight my fatigue ....Legio kind of generally said what I mean. In that case my previous saying about "good" and "bad" could generally refer to englightened and not englightened.
    Your position then is: any people engaged in imperialist expansion is unenlightened? Is that right?
    Last edited by Pindar; 04-23-2007 at 18:15.

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