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right making might

In eagarness, socialists and shallow relativists fall over themselves while attempting to equate advanced Western societies, or even to denigrate them, in opposition to obviously criminal administrations common among socialist paradises and other backward primitive states.

The congruence between the more advanced and organised societies and an ability to go out and right wrongs among the ‘savages’ says nothing about might making right. It says much more about right making might. It is just more of the old ‘white man's burden’ to bring civilisation to the backward and the savage.

That is eventually a ‘moral’ act, even if the politically correct world has recently forgotten that in its cotton-wool wish to ‘be different’, and its wish to claim or draw some ‘moral superiority’ from what is, in fact, the cowardice and the lack of fortitude that comes to a fat and lazy people

This does not imply that might is always used wisely or honourably. Nor does it suggest that a backward society that manages to obtain advanced weapons from corrupt or foolish sources somehow attains merit.