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I think war has a way of proving the fallacy of a binary moral stance. Good and Evil aren't as clear cut as we would like it to be.

The only thing it's good at is at showing who is heroic and who is craven. Heroic isn't perdefinition morally good, it's selflessness.

Are Ukrainian soldiers evil for defending their homeland? What about republican fighters in Spain in the 30s? What about the partisans in italy in that same time? Or the french resistance? Killing an evil person, or evil people, doesn't make one evil.

I believe that moral sacrifices performed to protect others deserve respect just like physical ones. A necessary evil may still be evil - but it's also still necessary, which means that someone have to do it to prevent much greater evil. If you happen to benefit from the prevention of that greater evil, it is not right for you to condemn those who have dirtied their hands and soiled their souls to bring out that outcome.

I'm not saying it should be glorified, of course - that would just encourage the ones who actually enjoy that greater evil while making the ones who feel conflicted and guilty about having to do it feel even worse. But you should not criticize them either. Save that for the leaders who actually had more options, maybe even some non-evil ones.

And most of the WW2 vets are dead so this old geezer was in Korea or Vietnam.

If he was enlisted, fair enough, probably got drafted as a slave soldier for capitalism, but officers are almost always volunteers.

I hope you're not responding to me, because that would not be murder, it would be slaying a monster.

But many of those older soldiers were slaves, which is what a conscript simply is when the actual security of a nation isn't being threatened.

It's only after Vietnam that American wars have been fought entirely by volunteers.

I dunno man, an official government which forbids women to literally even speak sounds a lot worse than the shit the US pulled when we propped up Hamid Karzai.