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The question is: Why should he be in prison at all? and why the other three murderers in the army who were exposed in the 'collateral damage' video be left free
by monsterix 13y ago
The question is: Why should he be in prison at all? and why the other three murderers in the army who were exposed in the 'collateral damage' video be left free outside untried?
The question is why would someone end up leaking state secrets at all?: Hint: Those secrets are about wrong doings!
- nsxwolf 13y agoSo did you actually watch the video of the "three murderers" and think critically about it, or were you swayed by the heavily editorialized subtitles and its sensational title?
- monsterix 13y agoLet me ask this question to you instead: Did you think critically about the crime and figure out the murderers at all?
- nsxwolf 13y agoI'm not convinced I see a crime committed. From what I saw and heard, I don't believe three crew members woke up that morning and decided "let's kill some civilians today". Remember "mens rea"? We HNers all seem to think that's an important concept, except apparently when it's people we don't like (US military).
- monsterix 13y agoI do understand what you mean. Being an HNer may sound like becoming one of the echo-chamber but you might want to look at these statistics [1] and then decide for yourself: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_War_... Hundreds and thousands of civilian deaths for what cost? Who paid the price of waging such a war (crime according to some), the taxpayers? As to measure the 'crime' in the video called collateral damage ... follow the transcript here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251512
- nsxwolf 13y agoI understand what you're saying too, but it's a different point - a judgement of the war overall vs. a specific event.