Saturday, July 16, 2011

Sticking your nose

outside your competence. While researching something else, I found this section in the Catholic Catechism. Once again, moralists talking through their red hats.

2315 The accumulation of arms strikes many as a paradoxically suitable way of deterring potential adversaries from war. They see it as the most effective means of ensuring peace among nations. This method of deterrence gives rise to strong moral reservations. The arms race does not ensure peace. Far from eliminating the causes of war, it risks aggravating them. Spending enormous sums to produce ever new types of weapons impedes efforts to aid needy populations;111 it thwarts the development of peoples.
This kind of uninformed fatuous pompous blowhardery is the lefty version of "pontification", a word which has justly acquired the implication of preaching what you don't know about.

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