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I wonder how much overlap there is between people who accept the justifications you describe, and people who claim that it's perfectly fine to persecute and tor
by PoignardAzur 4y ago
I wonder how much overlap there is between people who accept the justifications you describe, and people who claim that it's perfectly fine to persecute and torture Julian Assange because "he endangered US informants".
- jason-phillips 4y agoI think in the Venn diagram you're proposing, there's a lot of overlap. However, I think it's useful to look at this with a more objective lens in that these CIA employees are doing a job and that they also report to somebody and what that bog-standard relationship looks like. I think understanding how that fairly boring dynamic works in every federal agency may possibly help explain the behavior you're observing more than anything. There's really no great mystery to it.
- PoignardAzur 4y agoSure. There is no great mystery to slavery either, it's a very straightforward concept. That doesn't mean that people's shock and disgust of the institution is naive or uninformed.