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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] 2006 military budget balancing act
  • Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:33:43 -0700


tvoivozhd---It's not payment in full for their magnitude of their cruelty, but it's the best you can do.

Soldiers just follow orders. To laugh in glee as someone dies is hideous
no matter who it is. One can have a gladness that the task is done, but to
laugh or think it is fun to kill proves what one is.

Justified anger is the best way to overcome both fear and revulsion at doing something horrific. Having never killed, I can only strongly suspect that killing the first time is hardest, for some it becomes easier, for many it never gets easy, but having strongly felt justification has to make it less personally damaging and as much as highly satisfying. I also am pretty sure that the immediate aftermath of killing is different after killing face to face than after releasing a bomb or missile from thousands of feet up. In the first instance, relief has to be a strong feeling; in the second instance perhaps the feeling is more intellectual. I often disagree with the senior geezer's opinion on the efficacy of force or diplomacy, but I respect judgement based on personal experience. If you ain't been there, you can't know all the factors.






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