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From: Dennis
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: Morally Justified Killing
A military study of why many soldiers feel guilty about killing the enemy, and how to get them past this guilt. Just in time.
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE00/Kilner00.html
DP
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Raises question begging to Kafka-esque levels.....
"Training which drills soldiers on how to kill without explaining to them why it is morally permissible for them to do so is harmful to them, yet that is the current norm."
As if any human being has the moral authority to inaugurate aggression or to tell another to do so..and the moment we admit the mootness of the issue is the moment the very idea of civilization goes out the window because the concept of murder becomes meaningless....
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