{"id":10664,"date":"2020-01-23T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:48:53","slug":"638-cause-and-defect-playing-the-blame-game-over-irans-downing-of-flight-752","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10664","title":{"rendered":"638 – Cause and defect\u2014Playing the blame game over Iran’s downing of Flight 752"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While this may indeed be so, it is not proof of causality. \u2018Motivation\u2019 alone is not a \u2018cause\u2019. Iran could have chosen to respond in a myriad of different ways. To argue that Trump\u2019s decision \u2018caused\u2019 the downing of Flight 752 is defective logic.<\/strong> For Iran, It is a narrative constructed to avoid taking direct responsibility for its unconscionable action.<\/p>\n

Whether in physics or in the realm of human behavior, \u2018causes\u2019 are not metaphysical realities; they are an epistemological phenomenon. In other words, by assigning a \u2018cause\u2019 to a specific consequence, we are in reality constructing a narrative for some given purpose or objective. In this case, that purpose consists of assigning moral responsibility to some individual, group or government in the pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n

Therefore the real question that bears asking is this: Were the actions of Iran justifiable given the circumstances?<\/strong> The correct answer depends upon the standards of one\u2019s judgement. <\/p>\n

\u201cQassem Soleimani has taught us that death is the beginning of life, not the end of life,\u201d noted a commentary in the Globe and Mail. Indeed, Iran has repeatedly called for the death of America and for the obliteration of Israel. If \u2018death\u2019 is to be accepted as a standard of morality, then one could argue that Iran\u2019s pursuit of global terrorism and murder is justifiable. However, this is irrational, contradictory, and evil.<\/p>\n

\u201cMorality pertains only to the sphere of man\u2019s free will \u2013 only to those actions which are open to his choice,\u201d noted philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand. \u201cMan must choose his actions, values and goals by the standard which is proper to man \u2013 in order to achieve, maintain, fulfill and enjoy that ultimate value, that end in itself, which is his own life.\u201d<\/p>\n

When one contrasts the death cult that motivates the actions of the Iranian regime<\/strong> with America\u2019s actions based on its philosophy of \u2018life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,\u2019 it is clear that U.S. President Donald Trump has acted justly. It is also clear that it is solely the government of Iran that is morally culpable for the downing of Flight 752.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How this situation can justly be resolved remains to be seen. But arguing about the immediate \u2018causes\u2019 of the most recent events in a long chain of events is counter-productive.<\/p>\n

Sadly, it appears that we will never know all the facts or absolute truth about the immediate \u2018cause\u2019 of Iran\u2019s actions following the killing of Qassem Soleimani. Therefore, the best one can do is to create the long-term narrative describing a plausible truth that is closest to being Just Right \u2013 and respond accordingly.<\/p>\n

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Under a cloak of plausible deniability, Iran has argued that its downing of Ukrainian Flight 752 over Tehran was both \u2018accidental\u2019 and \u2018caused\u2019 by Trump\u2019s ordering the killing of Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani. Indeed, many argue that this tragedy would never have happened \u201cif President Donald Trump had not decided to kill that Iranian general.\u201d [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,259,6,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-latest","category-military","category-politics","category-terrorism","issues-cause-and-effect","issues-death-cult","issues-downing-of-ukrainian-flight-752","issues-morality","guests-salim-mansur","category-12-id","category-28-id","category-259-id","category-6-id","category-85-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}