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> dubious morality I rendered humanitarian assistance that saved lives in the wake of the Sumatra earthquakes. My friends have done the same after the Japanese
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
> dubious morality
I rendered humanitarian assistance that saved lives in the wake of the Sumatra earthquakes. My friends have done the same after the Japanese Tsunami.
- amanaplanacanal 3y agoI don’t think you have to join the military to do that.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI don't need to join the military to airlift hundreds of tons of supplies from ship to shore in a natural disaster?
- ungamedplayer 3y agoI guess op thinks that the supply chain delivers itself in an emergency.
- Nullabillity 3y agoYou can do humanitarian aid without using it to whitewash murder and other violence. We don't have to take the (rather overwhelming) bad with the slivers of good.
- ungamedplayer 3y agoI've yet to see large scale humanitarian aid work without military involvement, ymmv. I'd like to see it.. I just don't think I've seen it.
- scotty79 3y agoIf that were the only things soldiers did. However... Either way, you did something good. Unlike many of your comrades. You got the lucky ticket that was the thing you were ordered to do (or offered to volunteer).
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago> Unlike many of your comrades. What do you mean by that?
- scotty79 3y agoDestroying things and intentionally killing. You know, the things uniquely soldiers are trained and desensitized to do.
- kbelder 3y ago>Destroying things and intentionally killing. Neither of those things is necessarily morally questionable.
- scotty79 3y agoThey are intrinsically morally questionable if not just plain morally wrong. Imagine someone was destroying your stuff you don't want to be destroyed or trying to end your life prematurely you'd very much like to continue. Ah, you might say, but it's not immoral when done to bad people. But you are the bad people according to someone's definition. If you don't understand how it's more morally questionable than helping victims of natural disasters you are a way worse person than op who naturally chose to say "I saved people from natural disaster", not "I went to hot countries to kill some brown folk and destroy some of their stuff because my commander said they were bad".
- Gunnerhead 3y ago[dead]