GalacticTurtle on Nostr: As someone who grew up fully planning on having a military career, I feel like once ...
As someone who grew up fully planning on having a military career, I feel like once you begin speaking of war, it doesn’t make much sense to simultaneously engage in debates about morality. In fact I don’t think it is possible to do so without dodging hypocrisy. Because once in the theatre of war, there can only be the mission for those waging it and those who get caught in the crossfire. That’s the way it always has been and the way it will always be.
Which is why I guess all the debates I witness these days don’t make much sense to me. I see where everyone is coming from, but you have to decide what you’re talking about: The mission or the morality? Once you get down to the nitty gritty, you can’t have both no matter how much the thin veneer of etiquette has come about and morphed amongst men who come to the conclusion they must take or lose, eradicate or be eradicated. I think this is true whether you’re talking about neighborhood gang conflict or warring civilizations.
Which is why I guess all the debates I witness these days don’t make much sense to me. I see where everyone is coming from, but you have to decide what you’re talking about: The mission or the morality? Once you get down to the nitty gritty, you can’t have both no matter how much the thin veneer of etiquette has come about and morphed amongst men who come to the conclusion they must take or lose, eradicate or be eradicated. I think this is true whether you’re talking about neighborhood gang conflict or warring civilizations.