@fmf said
Once again, KellyJay. Don't just run away. What makes you think I would have been "against the Nuremberg trials"?
Repost:
Your assertion that this is nothing but my accretion so it doesn't matter is just an
assertion too, nothing meaningful, it is no different than saying here is a binary
choice, I believe one of them is right. The truth isn't going to be altered by who
believes what so just looking at only the fact that assertions are being made that
oppose one another on any discussion means that either both are wrong, or one
is right, that much we can be certain about. What is good, is it only in each of our
eyes, only we get to say this is good for us, and your views about me don't matter?
If you accept that then I suppose you would have been against the Nuremberg
trials after WW2, since those guys were only doing what they thought was right
at the time.
A standard was being applied to people at the time who were only doing what was
expected of them in their society. The crimes they did were not counter to their
own cultural norms at the time.
So after the war, war crimes were applied as if they should have known. An intrinsic
good and evil perhaps, difficult to say you are evil, and what you did was evil, if
everyone gets to make it up as they go. Unless you want to say what might makes
right, then good and evil are just who can kick whose butt to force them into
submission.
Addtional:
Without a reference point that applies to all, who is to say they did wrong?