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unspeakablehorrorMe: I am not a pacifist.
Someone: The U.S. military...
Me: I'm a pacifist.
Ramble-tags: Not to say that this doesn't apply to other militaries, because it absolutely does, it just doesn't apply to all of them to an equal degree, I don't really go for blanket statements like 'both sides are equally bad', even though I will never think war is good, I think that at its best it can only ever be a necessary evil, still context is important, because the U.S. military is especially bad because of the context in which it acts, not as some inherent trait of the people who make it up, the problem isn't 'oh, these people are just especially bad and we just need different people in this same system', no the problem is the system itself, though do not take that to mean that I think 'they were just following orders' is a good defense of an individual's behavior, but finding excuses for the unthinkable is also part of the system, and that's not solely reserved to the people who are actually in the military, even when war is justified, it will never be just, and wars for resource extraction under the guise of 'bringing democracy' will never be just
Someone: The U.S. military...
Me: I'm a pacifist.
Ramble-tags: Not to say that this doesn't apply to other militaries, because it absolutely does, it just doesn't apply to all of them to an equal degree, I don't really go for blanket statements like 'both sides are equally bad', even though I will never think war is good, I think that at its best it can only ever be a necessary evil, still context is important, because the U.S. military is especially bad because of the context in which it acts, not as some inherent trait of the people who make it up, the problem isn't 'oh, these people are just especially bad and we just need different people in this same system', no the problem is the system itself, though do not take that to mean that I think 'they were just following orders' is a good defense of an individual's behavior, but finding excuses for the unthinkable is also part of the system, and that's not solely reserved to the people who are actually in the military, even when war is justified, it will never be just, and wars for resource extraction under the guise of 'bringing democracy' will never be just