RE: Why do people hate school shooters?
November 22, 2014 at 9:26 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2014 at 9:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 22, 2014 at 8:27 am)paulpablo Wrote: It depends on how you categorize the killing overseas. I'm thinking more of the individual actions and battles fought, rather than what American leaders say the objective of an entire war is beforehand.The individuals are decent people who have willingly put their lives on the line for something that they themselves may have no stake in, that they themselves may not agree with - that they may actively oppose. War, at the level of strategy -or- individual action is not about killing the other guys kids, wife, and extended family. There's at least one different word for that. Genocide.
Quote:I'm sure there have been many instances of at least some military personnel targeting civilians.In that there are people in wars, and some people are sadists and nutballs, of course. Again, wafflehouses also have sadists and nutballs in them - and I bet at least a few of them shave their legs. I'm not defending war, I'm not defending nutballs, I'm just suggesting that war and nutballs are bad enough without extraneous and shadowy equivalence being asserted between the two. If someone wanted to make the case that both are bad form (and I definitely would) the worst way to do so, imo, is to begin with a straw effigy of what we hope to undermine. We'd be poisoning our own well.
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