Justification of war: http://www.xanga.com/eddiefromhb/446382886/item.html

Thanks!

I have rarely deleted comments and even more rarely blocked users in my entire time on Xanga.  Unfortunately it has become more common lately out of necessity.  Discussion is good.  Differing opinions are good.  Using my site as a forum to post private information about other Xangans, continue arguments from elsewhere, make blatant personal attacks, or promote blatantly illegal/immoral activity is not and I will not allow it.  If those things are required to participate in the Cafe then please inform me and I will remove myself from it.

Building_A_Mystery, personally i hate to see that sometimes the energy of participants of the group are wasted in commenting your blog. Not because it is a waste of energy to comment your entries, but because they probably would like to discuss, like it could happen in a forum, in a socratic debate their opinion versus your and other participants' opinions who commented in your blog.
I note that my opinion usually differ with yours, and that is actually one of the main reasons i used to comment them (what kind of boring discussion is the one where participants have the same opinion?).

Personally i think also that my comment were not offensive at all. At least, less offensive than your previous ones towards me (and i am not offended by them).
I did never post any private information about other Xangans and never made a "blatant" personal attack (ask somebody else if they find my comments "blatant", "personal" or "attacks" or any combination of those three scary definitions, if you have any doubt)

So, if your hostility towards me was because you don't want to discuss with someone with a different opinion, well you should have better said something like "Hey, italian_culture, shut up, because i don't want to discuss with you" instead of blocking me.
I probably would have stopped putting my comments on your blog, after asking in a socratic way "why?".
But that should have been the demonstration that you don't want to discuss in a socratic way, because, how Nance1 reminded, one of the target of a Socratic discussion is to help us to compare different opinions with ours. So, if it is like that, even hoping that nobody would delete you from the blog ring, i end up asking myself why do you feel pushed to participate to a blog ring you don't belong to.

I am not sure if i can dare to ask the same question to you, so i avoid, being clear that you don't want to speak with me.

Italian Culture is not blocked from my site.  Notice that my comment was not directed at any individual.  As usual, I am left wondering why he feels like I was talking to him if he knows that he was not guilty of the issues I stated.  I am even more bewildered as to why it had to turn into a public rant here.  These types of games are probably why so few people are even bothering to participate anymore.  I know it is about to make me think twice about it...

Mystery,

I am not blocked. I am not now, atleast, but unfortunately for you there was a problem on your blog since a few posts i tried to write on your previous blog entries are lost forever in the limbo of the net.

I apologize i accused you. I thought it was your intention.

I don't have a big lot of time to write new posts (infact i don't participate every time), but i like deep discussions.

Sometimes i note that some discussions, on mine or others' blog,  just end up like if there is no more to say, even if actually they are still open. So that i am for example waiting for an answer that i won't ever have, and i think it is because the person i am waiting is busy thinking to the next topic. That's a pity, since the discussion could be deeper and some subject can come out better.

This, just to say that i prefer the two-weeks period for deep discussions instead a one-week period for a superficial one. I believe that looking to others' blogs and participate to the discussion we are interested in is much more interesting than just "close the drawer" and think of something else.

ciao

dario

I'll just answer this here, because my response is short... I chose the question "When is war justified?"

My answer: When the outcome of said "peace" will obviously be graver then the outcome of the intended war.

God bless,

*Shan*