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The Philosopher's Zone





Date/Time 23 Jul 2019 1:11:15am
Hi Rolf Mao.

You write-

"-your identity is tied up with the mythical Caucasian race (or is it the Anglo-Celtic race?)."

No, not correct.

My identity is conservative and nationalist. My heritage Western Enlightenment. The social movement that founded Australia, ended slavery, stopped child labour and gave women the vote.

To gain some understanding of conservatism I can recommend Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind.

A good summery of his thought, with his Ten Conservative Principals, can be found at-

I did not justify the role the Western powers played in the training, arming and funding the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. In fact I was very strongly against it at the time.

You are correct that I justified the nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, because it ended the war, and at the terrible cost of about 200,000 lives millions, possibly tens of millions lived.

The invasion of Japan would have seen massive battles to take cities, and the starvation of millions of women and children.

My uncle was expecting to be in the invasion of Japan and was sure he would not have survived the experience. My cousins are probably only alive today, along will millions of Japanese, because those bombs were dropped.

So I take it you, if given the choice to end a World War by killing thousands of people, would decide to take a course of action that killed millions instead.

And you would have called it moral.

That is the difference between the left and conservatism, the body count does not matter to the left if you stick to your leftist beliefs.

Well if it comes to killing more people or less, I would choose less every time.

After all I'm a conservative.
