If the reason why my enemy is my enemy is that she is a misogynist, and she has an enemy who calls her a slut and is a misogynist herself, that would be counter-intuitive for me. I chose “disagree strongly.” There’s an extremely important distinction between friend and ally for me.
Evidence? Let people express themselves freely.
No – the enemy of my enemy is not always my friend. There are people who unknowingly commit crimes because they’re under the influence.
To question the logic of individual ones that irritate you is to miss the point. In this case, sanctioning behavior (analogous to economic sanctions) is as much against me as it is against them. The Political Compass. There are people who rob for food. “What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state.”. Once treated, they can go back to become a fully functional member of society. If your objection is to other propositions, please wait until I open a thread on them. This is extreme. And crime is a complex thing to tackle. It would be quite logical for neutral parties to be brought together by a common foe. #3: Pride in one’s country is foolish. Rehabilitation is more important in my opinion.
I used to be okay with this but… the justice system is flawed. And by the way, for my result, here’s the graph: When I first started to take up this test, I was kind of a left-centrist. Not just jobs, dude. I think my term “morally compromised” is accurate in this respect. We can’t assume shit like this. This is a decision that must be made on a case by case basis and it depends on the quality of the original enemy, the quality of that person’s enemy, my relationship with the third party, the type of engagement I’m having with the original enemy, and the forseeable consequences of making such a “friend” among other considerations. Address poverty first. As a matter of more traditional (i.e.- international) politics, I find the reasoning analogous. It might be hard for me to be friends with someone who thinks this way. The other point I’d have to make is that the proposition “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” does not state the enemy of my enemy was originally MY enemy, a condition I think you have assumed. Cheap brewed iced-coffee and self-deprecating jokes give me confidence. document.write(expander); Speculations & Whimseys SentientMeat: Economic: -5.12, Social: -7.28, and so by the above convention my co-ordinates are (-5.12, -7.28). Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Exploiting the poor for your company to become richer is just plain unethical. It is a wrecking ball designed to knock down the foundations of co-operation and good will to replace them with the quicksand of Machiavellian mistrust, as demonstrated by the swiftness and ease with which the “friend”* becomes the enemy himself. We wanna be career women and women fighters, too. Political Compass #5: My enemy's enemy is my friend. Just because I’m rooting for someone to knock those Wolverine socks off doesn’t mean I like them. Now, MOST of the time I suspect this policy comes back to become a worse problem than it was before, an obvious recent example being U.S. support for the people who eventually became the Taliban, which is why I fall into the Disagree camp. Of course. Puhleez. You may unite with another against a common foe, but that doesn’t make you friends. Anyone who says this is lazy and wants a short-cut to justice. The perfect case of this is Western cooperation (and propping up, to some extent) of the Soviet regime during World War II. You are saying that we shouldn’t seek out alliances with baddies but put up when they happen to fall in to place? “Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity.”.
Many political debates here have included references to The Political Compass, which uses a set of 61 questions to assess one’s political orientation in terms of economic left/right and social libertarianism/authoritarianism (rather like the “Libertarian diamond” popular in the US). In the early 1980’s, this proposition had the West calling Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein “friends”. Indeed, I would argue that the failure of the Allies to cooperate with Stalin and various lesser thugs would have been itself morally reprehensible, given the alternative. Your responses should not be overthought. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”. As I mature, I’ve become more libertarian. I also hesitate because I foresee circumstances where my enemy’s enemy is my enemy at the same time for reasons that specifically hinder cooperation. Cheap brewed iced-coffee and self-deprecating jokes give me confidence. There’s always going to be an asshole who’s going to use his power, in this case, the power to acquire personal data, to use for his own advantage.
Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my ally, but not necessarily my friend. I understand that people are exposed to different environment, experiences, and people that shaped their principles and values. If you’re running a country, the smaller part of it, the local ones, have their specific needs. I have a friend who told me that it isn’t the bosses to blame but capitalism itself. Necessity cannot be cynical. I’d usually take this to see whether I’ve shifted my views or nah. Please also indicate which option you ticked. I am merely explaining that I find the proposition so distasteful that I react to it highly unfavourably where others might be more sanguine - there will doubtless be propositions where the reverse occurs. I think it’s possible I mis-read one or two questions the first time through, though. “Sex outside marriage is usually immoral.”. If you wish to take the test, here’s the link: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test/en. You know, I picked Strongly Disagree for an entirely different reason. But sometimes it IS necessary, and I cannot imagine any reasonable argument to the contrary given the historical evidence, so I can’t tack on a “Strongly.”. However, as I have previously mentioned, the justice system is flawed in some ways. Cooperation here in a military campaign would be difficult. The enemy of my enemy, as anyone who has played any game of Risk knows, is a null state.
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