A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Tue Mar 18 12:09:17 PST 2003


Cheer up. It isn't just soldiers who get pooped on here. It's the working class.

mbs

. . . Such callous attitudes toward the soldiery as come from a number of LBO posters betray a defensive lack of meaningful contact with enlisted folks.

Emotional distance of this kind looks to me like strategic spiritual self-mutilation, an adaptive mechanism that lowers ones natural moral resistance to feeding the bodies of the dead and wounded into the grist mill of domestic sectarian politics.

No amount of soldier-bashing makes acceptable the utilitarian calculus of what one LBO poster called "secretly...[rooting] for high casualties among the troops."

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