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Satan tempts Jesus by offering him dominion—the chance to defeat the Roman enemy—if only Jesus will accept, as one theologian puts it, "the temptation to do evil that good may come; to justify the illegitimacy of the means by the greatness of the end." Hansell sided with Jesus: never do evil so that good may come. LeMay accepted the illegitimate means if they led to a swift and more advantageous end.
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Somewhere in retirement, Haywood Hansell saw that announcement in the newspaper, and I'm sure he wondered why he didn't get an award as well for the effort he put toward fighting a war with as few civilian casualties as possible. But we don't give prizes to people who fail at their given tasks, no matter how noble their intentions, do we? To the victor go the spoils.
— May 30, 2026 08:24PM
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If you are a morally guided person, and you want to be able to sleep at night and reconcile what you're doing with your own principles, you've got to find language and concepts to tell yourself that what you're doing is okay.
— May 30, 2026 11:37AM
