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I take your point, but I don’t think innocent foreigners care about the distinction between US departments when their family is killed as collateral.
by alphabettsy 5y ago
I take your point, but I don’t think innocent foreigners care about the distinction between US departments when their family is killed as collateral.
- kodah 5y agoIf I was speaking to an Afghani whose family had been devestated by a loved one dying due to combat I absolutely wouldn't be quick to correct the semantics of their language or argument. I'd speak to them with same reverance and scope that I'd speak to a Gold Star family. KennyBlanken, who I replied to, mixed the facts of several incidents into one and presented them as a singular coherent idea. I think I'm allowed to dissect an argument on a public forum, if I so see fit, at that point.
- throwanem 5y agoIf I'm going to try to argue that my country shouldn't in the first instance start wars in which innocent people get killed, better I should have some idea of the details of what I'm talking about so people are more likely to take me seriously, don't you think? I'd rather give myself a chance to maybe change three people's minds than shout pointlessly at three thousand. If you really feel your time better spent on the latter, though, far be it from me to persist in arguing otherwise.