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Personally, I expected a little more nuance from you. Gaps Send a noteboard - 15/01/2012 03:52:24 PM
Considering what I've seen at this site, the simple expression of an opinion that I personally feel no moral outrage that corpses of enemies of the US are pissed on by soldiers is hardly the worst post ever.

If it isn't rampant hyperbole, you're complete idiots.


It's not the most offensive thing I've ever read, here or there, but also the source: I would have expected a little more from you. It seems ill-considered.

You feel that your moral paradigm, militant western democracy, is greater than the Taliban's moral paradigm, militant Islamic theology. Well, that's fine: I actually agree with that. But there's a reason that human beings have come up with certain codes of conduct, for instance, the Geneva Convention, to codify the operations of war. Within that codification, to which our military subscribes, we recognize the inherent immorality of the desecration of dead human bodies. We say it's an immoral thing to do, whether it's done by our enemies or done by our own soliders, and we recognize that certain acts go above the finger pointing of "this side is worst than that side", and are inherently, universally "wrong". You're shrugging that off and saying that this immoral act is okay, because those other guys are so immoral, which unravels the whole ball of string. If the Taliban were pissing on the flag-draped bodies of dead marines, you'd very likely be upset. I find either circumstance incredibly disturbing and base, and "wrong".

(If you come up with something interesting in response, I might reply. Ad hom and I'm all set, as I'm reading Sex at Dawn and it's super engaging.)
I cannot even copy his manner because the manner of his prose was the manner of his thinking and that was a dazzling succession of gaps; and you cannot ape a gap because you are bound to fill it in somehow or other -- and blot it out in the process. -- Nabokov
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Am I the only one who doesn't care if the Marines piss on the corpses of Taliban? - 13/01/2012 03:28:08 PM 1933 Views
Eh, it makes our guys look like uncivilized barbarian hicks. - 13/01/2012 03:37:24 PM 1127 Views
They're not? *NM* - 17/01/2012 09:52:28 AM 565 Views
Probably not the only one. - 13/01/2012 03:51:18 PM 1260 Views
I agree. *NM* - 13/01/2012 08:11:57 PM 553 Views
Well said. *NM* - 13/01/2012 10:52:26 PM 518 Views
Excellent post. - 14/01/2012 04:23:32 PM 963 Views
well said indeed. *NM* - 14/01/2012 06:30:21 PM 570 Views
Actually, IIRC, we were told the Afghanistan war was important because of the Talibans threat to us. - 14/01/2012 11:18:28 PM 963 Views
Yes, that was part of it. Of course. AND we were going to help bring democracy. - 15/01/2012 12:42:57 AM 969 Views
If we have time, sure. - 15/01/2012 10:18:31 PM 1118 Views
ooookay. *NM* - 16/01/2012 12:12:06 AM 516 Views
? - 16/01/2012 01:17:37 AM 1009 Views
Re: ? - 16/01/2012 12:22:39 PM 1003 Views
I quite agree with Joel on this point (frightening as that admission may be). - 16/01/2012 02:01:05 PM 989 Views
Doesn't matter. - 16/01/2012 02:33:53 PM 1031 Views
Your definition of "terrible thing" seems quite elastic. - 16/01/2012 07:21:12 PM 906 Views
I knew I had a good reason to hate you! - 16/01/2012 09:14:47 PM 1047 Views
It took this post for you to realize that? - 16/01/2012 09:17:00 PM 945 Views
I am pissed at them - 13/01/2012 06:00:56 PM 1266 Views
Yup. *NM* - 13/01/2012 06:07:10 PM 584 Views
Nope, you aren't. - 13/01/2012 07:08:06 PM 918 Views
I have a strong feeling that this was not the worst that's been done to those bodies - 13/01/2012 10:43:34 PM 1058 Views
any army simply reflects the society it is created from - 13/01/2012 11:06:57 PM 1115 Views
Agreed - 14/01/2012 12:37:45 AM 974 Views
You're far from the only one, but I don't agree with it. - 14/01/2012 12:17:31 AM 1069 Views
Awful. Worst post ever. *NM* - 14/01/2012 05:12:41 PM 752 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 14/01/2012 06:28:25 PM 507 Views
That's absurdly stupid of both of you. Expression of legitimate opinion hardly qualifies as "worst" - 14/01/2012 08:46:30 PM 996 Views
I agree worst post ever is one hell of a high bar - 15/01/2012 03:52:42 AM 997 Views
I vaguely remember that post - 15/01/2012 04:06:32 AM 929 Views
Seriously, I once posted nude pics of a chat admins wife and THIS is the worst post ever? *NM* - 15/01/2012 05:28:32 AM 519 Views
wow...thats kinda fucked up Adam..... *NM* - 15/01/2012 05:58:37 AM 469 Views
Thank you. *bows* *NM* - 15/01/2012 06:46:03 AM 515 Views
Personally, I expected a little more nuance from you. - 15/01/2012 03:52:24 PM 1403 Views
moral? - 14/01/2012 09:53:01 PM 1062 Views
I agree it was stupid to record it, and a breach of policy. - 14/01/2012 11:05:49 PM 952 Views
im just baffled - 14/01/2012 11:36:32 PM 1019 Views
Well, in the future you can expect it. - 15/01/2012 02:54:59 AM 931 Views
This shows that you are a bit of a sociopath *NM* - 15/01/2012 08:08:39 AM 532 Views
But we knew that already. *NM* - 15/01/2012 11:18:02 AM 520 Views
You're still upset I called American girls prudes. - 15/01/2012 04:43:31 PM 883 Views
I had forgotten you called American girls prudes - 16/01/2012 10:22:50 AM 993 Views
as someone said on the radio recently... - 16/01/2012 08:41:25 PM 970 Views
They aren't conditioned to murder, much less "in cold blood" - 16/01/2012 09:15:54 PM 1071 Views
surprisingly there really is no conditioning to kill - 16/01/2012 09:33:51 PM 965 Views
You used the phrase enemy combatant... - 17/01/2012 10:34:41 PM 954 Views
they are a problematic enemy - 17/01/2012 11:41:11 PM 1373 Views
stop listening to idiots on the radio *NM* - 16/01/2012 09:16:42 PM 485 Views

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