RE: A Philosophy of War and Conflict
August 1, 2026 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2026 at 12:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Let’s try a softball on the ethics of conflict. Do we believe that invading a neighboring country in order to maintain one’s own position of domestic power is an ethical use of military force? Do we believe that the use of expeditionary military force is a prudent avenue for resolving domestic problems in general? Like….say I do t have as many bananas as I want…and I’ve got a banana buyer lined up…and you have a few bananas. How do you feel about me busting down your door at o dark thirty, shooting your son, fucking your wife, taking your bananas, burning your house down, then selling the real estate to my cousin? How sympathetic would you be to my cause if…in the course of this…I complained about you taking a swing at me?
Now, maybe you’re not so much worried about me…but about the hardships my family would suffer when my hare-brained scheme failed? What if I told my family that I planned a smash and grab. That I could finish it up in a few days, maybe a month, and they’d all share in the loot….called you a Jewish nazi for the lulz…and they cheered for it?
What do you think the ethical angles are on something like that?
Now, maybe you’re not so much worried about me…but about the hardships my family would suffer when my hare-brained scheme failed? What if I told my family that I planned a smash and grab. That I could finish it up in a few days, maybe a month, and they’d all share in the loot….called you a Jewish nazi for the lulz…and they cheered for it?
What do you think the ethical angles are on something like that?
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