Reply #349: for as long as loyalty to race and nation trumps basic morality...

[NorthernSpy]

... aggressive war and all of its attendant crimes will remain popular.

You say that people here are "attacking the troops". I say that you are a dishonest propagandist. Stop slandering us.

What many here are doing is refusing to applaud what the troops are doing over there.

I personally know people who refused to join in the throttling of those poor little countries that the Washington imperialists had selected for destruction back in the 60s. And some of them really paid for that refusal. The country as a whole may have hated them, but I'm betting that the people who would have been their victims did not.

I'll consider the troops as suffering human beings who are at risk of death and maiming. I will not call them innocent, or lie and pretend that what they are doing to strangers halfway around the world is right and just. Only the most paranoid chauvinist could consider that "attacking" anybody.


If we want to benefit from other people's moral choices not to murder, not to torture, not to destroy -- then we have to make moral choices of our own.

We have no right to expect morality of others if we're not willing to exhibit any ourselves.