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I agree with this. The proper function of a military court is to examine compliance with military law, not to pass judgement on ethics outside of that law. Th
by Vivtek 13y ago
I agree with this. The proper function of a military court is to examine compliance with military law, not to pass judgement on ethics outside of that law.
The function of civil authority, say a moral President, something I hope to live to see, would be to pardon Manning, overruling the military justice sentence in the context of a greater good.
Clearly, this will not happen. Obama will simply wash his hands - not explicitly, though. The media will never even ask the question.
- fusiongyro 13y agoExactly.
- jlgreco 13y agoSo basically, not only is this true: "Fuck you. It doesn't take a military mind to understand the difference between right and wrong and how little either has to do with institutional rules." ..but the more extreme "It TAKES a civilian mind to understand the difference between right and wrong" is also true? If the military is unable to consider morality itself, then we must rely on civilians to call them out. Accusing civilians of being incapable of doing that then puts the military above any sense of morality. Disturbing, to say the least.
- fusiongyro 13y agoAnybody can point to this outcome and say, "this is unjust/immoral," military or not. In order to say "this outcome is illegal/improper procedure" you have to have some domain knowledge.
- jlgreco 13y ago> "Anybody can point to this outcome and say, "this is unjust/immoral,"" That is what he was doing (see for clarification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6251625(, and that is why a reply of "civilians may not understand" got a strongly negative response.