Reply #52: "anyone who supports murdering bastards" [View All]

[TacticalPeek]

One problem in your analysis, IMO, is where you conflate institutions with individual actions and responsibilities, thereby infusing your position with several contradictions. For example, feeling properly outraged as you do against these eight thugs, you must strongly support the troops who will prosecute the offenders, the troops who will guard them in the brig during their punishment, etc. Therefore you must support a military institution that punishes and minimizes thuggery and murder.

That is, unless your position is against any military force as inherently immoral. Even then, or specifically in this case, a strict and pure moral stance is extremely arduous to maintain. Are you a taxpayer? Do you help buy bullets that kill innocent children, etc.? Should the corpsman treating wounded troops and civilians recognize some ultimate contributory morality and desert his patients and unit? Similarly, should you refuse to pay blood taxes and either go to prison or become a fugitive?

I guess all I'm saying is it may not be as black and white as you think, and that even your black and white constructs are somewhat blurred. I see no posts that support the eight murdering bastards.