Reply #13: Military service, especially compulsory military service -- [View All]

[saltpoint]

-- during times of international war, is less negotiable to those actually serving than to us over half a century later.

Your model would make complicit any soldier for any nation during any such war in any inhumane act. Should U.S. veterans of the Second World War be held morally accountable for the H-bomb that was dropped on Japanese cities?

That bomb killed hundreds of thousands instantly. Those other soldiers, by dint of their being in the army, according to your construct, are as guilty as the specific man who pulled the lever that dropped the hydrogren bomb.

The grocery list is plenty long on objections to Ratzinger's ideology and the argument needs to take place there rather than when he was 14 (Hitlerjugend) or 17-18 (Wehrmacht).