[ SECRET POST #2239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2239 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Elementary]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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04.
[Noah, Power Rangers MegaForce]


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05.
[Mass Effect]


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06.
[Resident Evil]


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07.
[Medaka Box]


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08.
[Shameless]


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09.
[Star Trek 2009]


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10.
[Dreamwork's Sinbad, Avengers, American Gods, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Batman, Gunnerkrigg Court, Grim Adventures, Trickster's Choice/Queen]


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11.
[American Dad]


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12.
[Laurell K. Hamilton]


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13.
[my neighbour totoro]


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14.
[Medaka Box]


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15.
[Downton Abbey]


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16.
[The Red Panda, Black Jack Justice]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 080 secrets from Secret Submission Post #320.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So I fully recognize that this is a fictional universe etc blah blah but come the hell on really? "Their enemies are not [innocent]"? As a blanket statement, as if any given side in a war is *ever* innocent? War is war. Sometimes it may be considered necessary, but it does us no favors to pretend like there's really such a thing as totally innocent good guys who are justified in their every action just neutralizing horrible bad guys with no good reasons for the evils they perpetrate. You undermine any point you're trying to make with that kind of shoddy and naive reasoning.
Either way, human (and in ST universe, sentient and/or human-like) life has a particular moral value. Not saying poor behavior towards animals isn't bad; it is morally wrong and unjust, don't mistake me. But even radical animal rights advocates (viz. Peter Singer) admit that it is a substantially more unethical action to kill a conscious human than to kill any given animal. And no-- I really don't care if the person is "not innocent"-- it is a terrible wrong to kill them, and misleading at best to try to compare their death with the death of a nonhuman animal.

D- for effort.

[(Anonymous)]

If your enemies are trying to kill you then you have every moral right to try and kill them first.

This, of course, does not describe every war that was ever fought - in fact it probably describes very few of them.

However, in this particular Star Trek movie the enemies were trying to blow up PLANETS.

Killing them was a completely different, utterly not comparable situation.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Debatable. Plenty of moral philosophers would disagree on that point. But that's besides the point-- I think you're probably right in this situation. My point was not that they were evil for killing the Romulans trying to commit genocide; rather, the anon I responded to was implying 1. that Starfleet was always innocent/just and its enemies always guilty, 2. that general guilt (not specific and present extenuating circumstances) could render killing somebody morally acceptable (that is to say, if it is ethically acceptable to kill your attacker, it is surely because of their present danger, not their moral culpability; we do not accept revenge killings as ethical the way we accept self defense), and 3. the lives of a sentient human/human-like being can be evenly weighed against the lives of nonhuman animals.
I disagree with those points pretty strongly; I find the point you're making to be compelling, especially in this extreme situation.

/sorry for the novel; hope you're having a nice night!