UnterSeeBootRespecter
4mo ago
No. It is, in itself, evil. Even if never acted upon.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
4mo ago
So you’re saying child rape isn’t evil?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
4mo ago
Are you saying that the rape of children is not an inherently evil act? I’m not sure how I provide evidence for this. Is a simple moral fact not enough?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
Hatred for evil is appropriate. Pedophilia is evil. Controversial, I know.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
Grilling is direct flame, high heat.
Barbecue is lower temperatures, indirect heat, smoke.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
Grilling or barbecue?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
That would have been dishonorable
UnterSeeBootRespecter
5mo ago
A large majority of gun owners support a compromise wherein restrictions on the kinds of guns a person can own are greatly loosened in exchange for making it harder to buy guns.
No, we don't. I want no restrictions on the kinds of guns and no restrictions on who can own them. Licensure of fundamental freedom is simply wrong.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
The government not doing things is not the same as nothing getting done.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Loyalty to the Ukraine regime? Obviously?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Well I don’t know for sure. But if you are worried about guerrilla warfare then you’re going to need some level of repression.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Assuming that scenario, you take as much territory as you can while still getting an agreement, and then you implement a campaign of soft ethnic cleansing and population transfer. Make it shitty and annoying to be a Ukrainian in what is now going to be Southwest Russia. Make it terrifically easy and trivial to get a bus, train, or plane out of there. Make it impossible to return. Build a defensive line in the most defensible terrain, being prepared to sacrifice indefensible portions of your new territory if/when there is another round of fighting.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Smart thing would be to have each unit have a concrete waterproof curb around the perimeter and multiple drains throughout. Preferably some large drains such that blocking them would be an actual challenge.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Wait are we talking about Palestinians or Fremen?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Time to import championship skeet shooters?
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Former Intel POG here. This is very applicable to the infantry IME but less applicable to support MOS. E.g. your Intel weenies and S6 IT guys are more likely to be middle class fuckups/failsons than lower class degens. Arguably I find the infantry guys more admirable, especially after being IED'd once and shot at the other time I left the wire on a patrol. Shit's real. Reading and collating intel reports is way less terrifying even if your NCOIC is scary as fuck.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
What do platoon COs do, then?
In the US Army they're called Platoon Leaders.
Mostly paperwork, meetings, get mentored by the more senior officers.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Right but you said Jews. You didn't say Zionists.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
notably, Israel knows that there would never be peace because Hamas's end goal is literally the destruction of Israel and they'll never settle for anything less
That's not even the most notable difference. The Afghans weren't attempting to remove America from Long Island, they were attempting to remove America from Afghanistan. The Algerians weren't trying to take Provence, they were trying to take Algeria.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
I don't think you know enough extremist Jews to be saying that. There are Jews as extreme as any in Israel here in the USA. Brooklyn, Lakewood, smaller places like Kiryas Joel in upstate NY. These Jews are no less extreme.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
While I think you have a point about the forgotten utility of full scale war, I wouldn't characterize the suppression of Tamils in Sri Lanka as a genocide. Nor does the Israeli's potential suppression of the Palestinians require the moniker. That's simply edginess on your part.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Or the unthinkable option, of course. Always lurking in the background.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
IIRC Egypt doesn't allow goods through their entry point into Gaza, only people. All goods must go through Israel's entry points.
UnterSeeBootRespecter
6mo ago
Raise the age to 70 or 72 and yeah that makes a lot of sense.
A 20 year plus non-working vacation at the end of your life should not be something the rest of us are paying for. If you can afford it, great for you.
I am rapidly losing faith in humanity here.
This is very much like saying "the desire to genocide armenians is not evil, only acting on that desire is evil." Or "the desire to torture dogs is not evil, only actually torturing dogs is."
No. The desire to commit evil acts is evil. Pedophilia is evil, even if never acted upon. And everyone is right to be wary of anyone who claims to be, or appears to be a pedophile, because that is evil.
That said, it is laudatory to resist temptations and to refrain from evil, even if you desire to do evil. And the Lord will reward those who are faithful and commit no evil though they have the desire.
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