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9. To repeat my point: Everyone is wrong and nobody is right. I would add that everyone makes specious arguments...
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:34 AM
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...to support their case.

You know, when I go to the McCarter Theater in Princeton, there is always a statement before the play of how the theater is located on Lenape land.

It does the Lenape no good to embrace the argument. They're gone, removed from their ancestral homeland. I would hope that they wouldn't bomb the McCarter theater, or for that matter, my home.

I would be remiss in my ethics if I sought to make an argument that either side lacks enthusiasm for killing the other, that one side's killings are less murderous than the other's.

War is atrocity ratcheting, and the justification for every atrocity is another atrocity. I hope I have enough decency left in my being to think that cycle is appalling.

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