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Originally posted by: Skipper
Nobody gets to be president of the US as a total and complete moron, which is what it would take to go to war over a false pretense.Quote
Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
There are certain pressures within culture and society that work on us, leading us to either do good or evil
GundarkHunter, every action people make is a concious desicion to perform that action. Society may put pressures on us, but the action that we finally choose is in the end, our desicion.
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The first comment was too good to resist responding to. Such a position presumes that intelligence, not popular opinion, rules the ballot box. The fact of the matter is that becoming President of the USA has much more to do with public perception (manufactured or otherwise) and one's connections within the political machine (not what you know but who you know). There are those who argue that you could have nominated a trained monkey as GOP and the race would have turned out the same.
On the second comment, you took me out of context, Go back and read it again. I would never assume that people make decisions based solely on political pressures; in fact, one of society's major ills is that people refuse to take responsibility for their actions, preferring to sue the pants off their preceived injurers. While social pressures may be strong, they are never so strong that we become slaves to societal pressure. If we do, it's our own fault.