Thread: self censorship
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Old 02-28-2007, 07:04 PM
limon limon is offline
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[censored] 'support our troops, oppose the war.' Any man with a conscience who doesn't like what he's doing can quit at any time, even if at times his only choice is one slightly less terrible option over another.

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What if quitting violates an oath he took, and through the taking of which he knowingly surrendered the option of quitting due to policy preferences?

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Yeah, it seems to me that the consequences of this line of reasoning are that the only moral possibility is to not have a standing army, which seems impractical.

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not true. the oath/military code of conduct has outs. outs which should be exorcized when asked to kill in a preemptive, unilateral, war of choice. some brave sevicemen have already gone this route. those are troops i can support!
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