More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.
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So the compromise itself is within ethics rather than between competing ethics, and I think that's true in geo-political concerns.
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Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
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I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.
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It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
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The introduction includes a quote from Alice Walker that says animals were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites. ... can only be compared with that which resulted from the centuries of tyranny by white humans over black humans.
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