| Consider the American Civil War. States near the Mason-Dixon line like Kentucky were waffling about whether they should support the North or the South, because they were close to the North yet some of the people there held slaves.
Lincoln pushed them over to the North's side by telling them it wasn't about slavery and that they'd get to keep the slaves. He also wrote speeches expressing some very racist attitudes to ensure everyone believed he was not going to free the slaves, right up until he did.
The North would probably have lost without the support of the border states. An act of betrayal and deception was necessary.
This strategy is risky. I cannot tell from the news reports whether Tibetans staged attacks or not, but for the sake of argument suppose they did. It would make them look horrible; people like to think that the rules are observed by their heroes and when they are not people get mad.
In the real world there are no rules and not that many heroes. You do what you think is right to the best of your ability to judge and just sort of muddle through life. If you need to lie to a few people to save a lot of people and think you can get away with it then I'd say that's an easy choice.
Destroying America one Volconvo post at a time.
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. |