As charming, posh, so-called intellectuals (or, if you prefer, contemporary human monsters) in Britain and Europe+ speak of the urgent need to find ever more huge sums of monies (“you need to excite people”) for another “interesting” European war (this time against Putin), and as we approach the 80th anniversary the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is important to remember the moral implications of the abuse of human technology.

“Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen spoke forthrightly about the ethical deformation that came from ignoring moral absolutes and justifying the intrinsically evil decision to use atomic weapons with merciless indiscrimination to destroy whole cities in order to intimidate survivors to surrender.

“The dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima,” Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen said, “blotted out boundaries. There was no longer a boundary between the military and the civilian, between the helper and the helped, between the wounded and the nurse and the doctor, and the living and the dead. For even the living who escaped the bomb were already half-dead. So we broke down boundaries and limits and from that time on the world has said we want no one limiting me.

… The key moral question comes down to the principle that the end does not justify the means. A noble intention to end the war does not make immoral acts moral. The same is true in the moral life more generally.”

+ Nagasaki was a strike against Japan and the Catholic Church

+ I am obviously not unaware of, or ignoring (see tags), what Iran-sponsored Hamas began in the Middle East. More on that to come.

+ John Mearsheimer: Ukraine, NATO Expansion, EU Expansion, Orange Revolution and Russia

+ Mearsheimer: The Roots of Liberal Hegemony

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