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Originally posted by PatrickHenry,
Man, are you cynical. Ends and means are a moral equivalent. How can justice result from injustice?
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Because in reality you can't achieve all goals in the 'just' way you would wish. We all live in
one big prisoners dilema. Which doesn't mean we shouldn't strife to become just. But I'm not shocked nor do I find it abhorring to hear we don't act like saints. And you are right that acting this way usually gets us into problems in the end. But as long as short term goals are easier to achieve in a 'bad' way and long term negative effects are uncertain at best, people and governments will sometimes be blinded by it and act in a less plausible way.