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In reply to the discussion: NKorean soldier defects to SKorea across border [View all]christx30
(6,241 posts)69. Let's turn it around:
What if he had lost and they had shot him? Would the soldiers be murderers in your eyes? Would you say that they deserve to be arrested and tried?
And where have you been for the 50+ years of the North Korean regime where they have killed MILLIONS of people through imprisonment, torture, starvation? The three Kims have lived in absolute luxury while their people starve to death? Where is your outrage about that? Is that ok, but a guy that wants to escape death and starvation is a selfish, cold blooded murderer? Most people want to live. And killing someone that wants to kill you isn't selfishness. It's self defense. I suppose you'd just stand there and let yourself be killed.
I wouldn't.
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There are crossroads that are safe. Some North Koreans even work in South Korea.
joshcryer
Oct 2012
#40
May he be kept safe and find his way in what is going to be a very different world
gtar100
Oct 2012
#3
That's beside the point. I have no doubt that the majority of soldiers follow orders.
Arrowhead2k1
Oct 2012
#8
When it's either you or me who gets to live, and your job is to kill me, I choose me.
Ikonoklast
Oct 2012
#10
I don't know, you don't kill your fellow humans in that way without considering it.
joshcryer
Oct 2012
#38
We had one that liked to post pictures of smiling North Koreans as proof that
msanthrope
Oct 2012
#64
I suppose you weren't too pleased with Soviet defections to the west, either.
LanternWaste
Oct 2012
#72