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09 Jan 2014, 7:15 am

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09 Jan 2014, 7:24 am

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, and the lesser of two evils is still (in my opinion) evil. Tito wasn't nearly as evil as his archnemesis Stalin, but he was still a tyrant and a sociopath.

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09 Jan 2014, 8:57 am

"The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less." -- #29 of The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, by Howard Taylor, author and illustrator of Schlock Mercenary

#9 is "Never turn your back on an enemy."

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09 Jan 2014, 9:31 am

Only if they are guaranteed to destroy each other.

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09 Jan 2014, 10:03 am

Kurgan wrote:

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, and the lesser of two evils is still (in my opinion) evil. Tito wasn't nearly as evil as his archnemesis Stalin, but he was still a tyrant and a sociopath.

But Stalin was an atheist though, and he murdered millions in the name of atheism. So therefore he wasn't evil.

Religious people are the true evil ones(at least according to PPR). :roll:

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09 Jan 2014, 10:08 am

Venger wrote:

Kurgan wrote:

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, and the lesser of two evils is still (in my opinion) evil. Tito wasn't nearly as evil as his archnemesis Stalin, but he was still a tyrant and a sociopath.

But Stalin was an atheist though, and he murdered millions in the name of atheism. So therefore he wasn't evil.

Religious people are the true evil ones(at least according to PPR). :roll:

Of course. Who cares about the 43 million people Stalin killed or the fact that the USSR for a long time banned the teaching of genetics, the Big Bang, Kelvin's theories and quantum physics?

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09 Jan 2014, 10:10 am

The enemy of my enemy is my friend only when he is attacking my enemy.

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09 Jan 2014, 10:15 am

Kurgan wrote:

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Kurgan wrote:

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, and the lesser of two evils is still (in my opinion) evil. Tito wasn't nearly as evil as his archnemesis Stalin, but he was still a tyrant and a sociopath.

But Stalin was an atheist though, and he murdered millions in the name of atheism. So therefore he wasn't evil.

Religious people are the true evil ones(at least according to PPR). :roll:

Of course. Who cares about the 43 million people Stalin killed or the fact that the USSR for a long time banned the teaching of genetics, the Big Bang, Kelvin's theories and quantum physics?

Stalin killed more people than the Nazis could ever dream of, and they were obsessed with murdering those super-evil religious people too.(jews, christians, etc)

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09 Jan 2014, 10:19 am

thewhitrbbit wrote:

The enemy of my enemy is my friend only when he is attacking my enemy.

What if two of your enemies attack each other?

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09 Jan 2014, 10:50 am

I have a few times considered the enemy of my enemy to be my friend based on that virtue alone. :twisted:

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09 Jan 2014, 11:06 am

They are your frienemy.

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09 Jan 2014, 12:24 pm

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09 Jan 2014, 2:53 pm

Kurgan wrote:

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend only when he is attacking my enemy.

What if two of your enemies attack each other?

Root for the weaker one to win, since it will cost them more to defeat the stronger one.

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09 Jan 2014, 3:31 pm

Kurgan wrote:

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, and the lesser of two evils is still (in my opinion) evil. Tito wasn't nearly as evil as his archnemesis Stalin, but he was still a tyrant and a sociopath.

I agree, let me add the the ends does not justify the means either. Evil is evil.

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09 Jan 2014, 4:01 pm

I nearly misspelt it and put: Is your enemy's enema your friend. :lol:

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09 Jan 2014, 5:18 pm

Kurgan wrote:

What if two of your enemies attack each other?

Kill the survivor, of course.

Seriously, who doesn't know this stuff? :lol:

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