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You made the unfortunate jump to the other extreme from the GP: nowhere did the GP say or imply that "spies should not be spying, soldiers should not be fightin
by rmxt 11y ago
You made the unfortunate jump to the other extreme from the GP: nowhere did the GP say or imply that "spies should not be spying, soldiers should not be fighting." There's room for nuance between "dragnet surveillance" and "no covert operations," but you seem to have missed that.
- happyscrappy 11y agoIf they are not supposed to spy on Americans or foreigners what exactly are they supposed to do?
- rmxt 11y agoNo one (in this thread at least) has said that they are not supposed to "spy" completely. What people are concerned with is dragnet surveillance. The way you are framing the issue is a classic case of a false dilemma. EDIT: My apologies, it looks like the top comment does drop that in at the end. That is indeed an unfortunate generalization. I do think that a more moderate and "middle-of-the-HN-crowd" approach would actually entail something short of dragnet surveillance though.