[ 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)]

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!