Reply #29: You are conflating two separate concepts. [View All]

[Maven]

A strategy is not the same as a calculation. While an assessment or "calculation" of the circumstances may be ipso facto devoid of moral content, a strategy is a prescribed course of action, and actions undoubtedly have moral content. To suggest otherwise is either absurd or nihilistic, and probably both.

A strategy may be the product of a calculation, but they are not the same thing.

One ought not engage in a fight if it is not important that it be won, and if it is important to win it, everything that can be done to secure victory must be done. To do less is to confess the thing is not worth winning, which is the same as acknowledging it was not worth fighting over in the first place, which makes even the harm done to the open enemy in its course a self-evident wrong.

Again absurdity and twisted logic not worth untangling. Is there no limit to legitimate political strategy in your eyes? No aspect of integrity we shouldn't forfeit to avoid "doing less?" Shall we engage in lies? Surveillance? Murder?