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Quote by: Scribbler1  To answer the question posed in the thread title, he
was a soldier doing his duty.
Nothing more than that. |
So because one puts on soem uniform he/she is beyond standard moral consideration? That's one aspect (among many) of statecraft I've never been able to get behind. We should eventually come to realize that soldiers actually do commit acts, that a great deal of tyranny happens because of their enacting policies. I think that's an elementary truth, honestly. But states thrive by defeating the introspective critical thinker, so they can divorce man from his own actions.
We should be concerned about those who say "we are nothing more than employees," soldiers or what have you. Such proclamations are a formula for disaster.
Grandpa h.