(November 22, 2016 at 6:00 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I was in the rear with the gear, where my dumb ass belonged. Yet I still helped kill people; I supported bombing strikes that put up to 230 tons of bombs on the ground in a single stroke. A small cog in a big machine designed to kill people and break things, I played my little part, and I have to own that.
In a sense, a combat infantryman like Rhythm has a cleaner conscience, perhaps, because he had a better reason to pull his trigger ... no one was shooting at me. So I won't equate killing in combat to murder; but because no one was shooting at me, does that mean my little part supporting those bombing strikes was cleaner, or dirtier?
I hope someone has an easy answer, because I sure in Hell don't.
Fair enough. That applies to me in a sense as well. Sure, I only made sure the refueling planes were in good shape. Those refueling planes keep bombers and fighters in the air longer, though. It's all one big, happy family in the end.
