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It may surprise you, but not everyone believes the military is evil, and thus working with them is evil.
by true_religion 8y ago
It may surprise you, but not everyone believes the military is evil, and thus working with them is evil.
- paganel 8y agoSpeaking for the US now (this is an outside view) but to me it looks like institutions such as the CIA or the NSA are indeed seen as evil by the majority of the public. Now, both the NSA and the CIA would mean nothing in the medium and long span of time if it weren’t for the power projected and often times actually exercised by the US military. As such, one can be forgiven for looking at the military as “bad”, if only for the fact that it “supports” bad institutions. Or, in other words, you cannot pick the “good guys” out of the military-industrial complex, to think otherwise is just self-delusion.
- tempest473 8y agoFor me this comparison is seams false as it would work the same way if you replaced "military" with "US taxpayer".
- CamTin 8y agoIndeed, all us US taxpayers and, more importantly, citizens are complicity with the myriad heinous crimes of our government. They do them in our name, with our money, and in most cases with our vote.
- tempest473 8y agoOK, but I hope that you don't propose vilanizing any support helping US taxpayers because of it, as it was the purpose of the analogy to explore that. Are hospitals evil for providing healtcare to US citizens who are enabling NSA?
- CamTin 8y agoNo, that's absurd.
- Drdrdrq 8y agoWell, military's purpose is killing people. Now if that is evil or not of course depends on your beliefs.