Human Shields and Choice

[Dani]

Now, that's the whole paragraph.  So, to repeat Roland's question, "Since when does honor equate to stupidity"?  Is it "stupid" in your view to repay your debts?  Remind me not to lend you any money.  What else is "stupid" in your view?  Keeping your word?  Meeting your commitments?  Obeying the law if you can get away with it?  Telling the truth?

Please answer, I'm really interested in your view of ethics.  I feel like I've come to know you much better from that one paragraph.

--Pete

Quite a talent there with mincing words and making assumptions. But we knew that already didn't we.

Finland was attacked by Soviet Union. Finland lost. Finland was decreed devastating reparation payments to a totalitarian country which had attacked Finland. This is akin to a burglar entering your house, and holding a gun in your head to make you pay. It's naught but extortion. Until the 80's Finnish foreign policy was largely dictated from Moscow. There's a reason Finlandization is a word. The smart thing would've been to turn west for help. Help to thwart the Soviet puppetstrings, and help to avoid paying the ransom.

As for the misquote, it was a two snippets edited to look like a phrase I wrote. I misunderstood it to question the suggested integrity the Finns maintained in WW2. Paying or not of war reparations is not part of WW2, but it's aftermath.