Poophammer comments on The fun part about putting words in dead people's mouths is that they can't go "I didn't say that you fucking asshole, what the fuck?"

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but i think the gradient of punishment and level of forgiveness extended should correlate with who they are, where they are from, how they came up, why they joined, etc.

Not everyone gets to be born white with nice parents, you guys take that for granted. If you were born this girl you wouldnt be magically more ethical, more morally sound or more intelligent than her.

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[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

Don't assume my race or that of other users unless they have explicitly stated it

While I can sympathise with poverty driving people into taking what they think is a steady job as well as the attractiveness of the GI Bill, it is not the only path even if others maybe require more work
The majority choose those paths rather than becoming a solider of the empire
And to a certain degree with the propgadisation, but above a certain age excpecting people to form a wordview outside of public school education and CIA Jim Hollywood rah-rah americana is an acceptable position espeially in this information age

If you were born this girl you wouldnt be magically more ethical, more morally sound or more intelligent than her.

Perhaps not and without getting into nature vs nurture, I could just as easily have ended up one of the majority of people born into her same circumstances who did not join up be enforcers of empire, and forged a life path that does not contain contributing to mass slaughter of innocents

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[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You still think it's a moral issue and youre wrong

I know for a fact that there are many many many poor people who try to join but get turned away because they are 1) Too fat 2) Too stupid 3) Too unhealthy 4) Criminal Records. 5) Drugs

"Approximately 77% (or about 3 out of 4) of young Americans aged 17 to 24 do not qualify to join the U.S. military without a special waiver. Pentagon studies show that the vast majority of young people are ineligible due to specific disqualifying standards."

When they give the select few with courage to join, they dont mean that, they mean those who werent already harvested by the US.

They dont join out of a sense of comradery or anything like that its just the imperial core squeezed everything out of its population and is left with a more narrow parameter.

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