RE: Captain Courage
November 28, 2023 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2023 at 1:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That is not ghandis invention. That question was asked centuries before ghandi was a twinkle in some caste lovers eyes, and he got it wrong. Depending on the true end, there may be some wholly disingenuous means to get there. That much is manifestly obvious. The true end..for example, in financial hostage taking... is to make money. Pretending that it's freedom fighting is a great means to achieve that end, even as it's a detriment to the end of freedom. I mean, just roll it around in your mouth. "We take hostages for freedom!".
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Property and/or infrastructure destruction and combat against uniformed agents of the state are not war crimes. The cops can be occupation authorities - take a look at all the russian pows in ukraine that were part of police units. Not equivalent to kidnapping tourists at all. You can hold a piece of the enemy's defense industry and demand the return of prisoners (or...hostages.....). You can offer prisoners in exchange for prisoners (or for hostages)...but you cannot take hostages. As for the ends justifying the means. To a professional uniformed soldier bound by military conventions hostage taking isn't even a means to the desired end, to be justified or considered, in the first place. You help civilians in a warzone like they were your own fucking mother..because but for the grace of god, they might be. You do not snatch them and extort their family members. The kinds of prisoners uniformed professional soldiers take cannot be brought or bought back with mere bribes...or, if we prefer, that's not how that's supposed to work, lol. We all fall down, ofc. To use a really blunt example. The seals did not bring an atm reader to the raid of osama bin ladens compound. No one has ever been released from gitmo because their wife came up with the proper amount of cash in a gofundme push.
It's not obvious how any of this leads into the commies getting something wrong or the hippies getting something right then wrong. You'd have to flesh that one out, I think.
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Property and/or infrastructure destruction and combat against uniformed agents of the state are not war crimes. The cops can be occupation authorities - take a look at all the russian pows in ukraine that were part of police units. Not equivalent to kidnapping tourists at all. You can hold a piece of the enemy's defense industry and demand the return of prisoners (or...hostages.....). You can offer prisoners in exchange for prisoners (or for hostages)...but you cannot take hostages. As for the ends justifying the means. To a professional uniformed soldier bound by military conventions hostage taking isn't even a means to the desired end, to be justified or considered, in the first place. You help civilians in a warzone like they were your own fucking mother..because but for the grace of god, they might be. You do not snatch them and extort their family members. The kinds of prisoners uniformed professional soldiers take cannot be brought or bought back with mere bribes...or, if we prefer, that's not how that's supposed to work, lol. We all fall down, ofc. To use a really blunt example. The seals did not bring an atm reader to the raid of osama bin ladens compound. No one has ever been released from gitmo because their wife came up with the proper amount of cash in a gofundme push.
It's not obvious how any of this leads into the commies getting something wrong or the hippies getting something right then wrong. You'd have to flesh that one out, I think.
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