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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 1699 Views
Eh, it makes our guys look like uncivilized barbarian hicks. - 13/01/2012 03:37:24 PM 865 Views
They're not? *NM* - 17/01/2012 09:52:28 AM 451 Views
Probably not the only one. - 13/01/2012 03:51:18 PM 1015 Views
I agree. *NM* - 13/01/2012 08:11:57 PM 423 Views
Well said. *NM* - 13/01/2012 10:52:26 PM 391 Views
Excellent post. - 14/01/2012 04:23:32 PM 742 Views
well said indeed. *NM* - 14/01/2012 06:30:21 PM 455 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 715 Views
Yes, that was part of it. Of course. AND we were going to help bring democracy. - 15/01/2012 12:42:57 AM 688 Views
If we have time, sure. - 15/01/2012 10:18:31 PM 820 Views
ooookay. *NM* - 16/01/2012 12:12:06 AM 403 Views
? - 16/01/2012 01:17:37 AM 747 Views
Re: ? - 16/01/2012 12:22:39 PM 737 Views
I quite agree with Joel on this point (frightening as that admission may be). - 16/01/2012 02:01:05 PM 738 Views
Doesn't matter. - 16/01/2012 02:33:53 PM 735 Views
Your definition of "terrible thing" seems quite elastic. - 16/01/2012 07:21:12 PM 655 Views
I knew I had a good reason to hate you! - 16/01/2012 09:14:47 PM 736 Views
It took this post for you to realize that? - 16/01/2012 09:17:00 PM 734 Views
I am pissed at them - 13/01/2012 06:00:56 PM 1019 Views
Yup. *NM* - 13/01/2012 06:07:10 PM 428 Views
Nope, you aren't. - 13/01/2012 07:08:06 PM 684 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 801 Views
any army simply reflects the society it is created from - 13/01/2012 11:06:57 PM 866 Views
Agreed - 14/01/2012 12:37:45 AM 744 Views
You're far from the only one, but I don't agree with it. - 14/01/2012 12:17:31 AM 820 Views
Awful. Worst post ever. *NM* - 14/01/2012 05:12:41 PM 560 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 14/01/2012 06:28:25 PM 401 Views
That's absurdly stupid of both of you. Expression of legitimate opinion hardly qualifies as "worst" - 14/01/2012 08:46:30 PM 720 Views
I agree worst post ever is one hell of a high bar - 15/01/2012 03:52:42 AM 741 Views
I vaguely remember that post - 15/01/2012 04:06:32 AM 669 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 389 Views
wow...thats kinda fucked up Adam..... *NM* - 15/01/2012 05:58:37 AM 331 Views
Thank you. *bows* *NM* - 15/01/2012 06:46:03 AM 370 Views
Personally, I expected a little more nuance from you. - 15/01/2012 03:52:24 PM 1010 Views
moral? - 14/01/2012 09:53:01 PM 805 Views
I agree it was stupid to record it, and a breach of policy. - 14/01/2012 11:05:49 PM 680 Views
im just baffled - 14/01/2012 11:36:32 PM 706 Views
Well, in the future you can expect it. - 15/01/2012 02:54:59 AM 689 Views
This shows that you are a bit of a sociopath *NM* - 15/01/2012 08:08:39 AM 366 Views
But we knew that already. *NM* - 15/01/2012 11:18:02 AM 387 Views
You're still upset I called American girls prudes. - 15/01/2012 04:43:31 PM 627 Views
I had forgotten you called American girls prudes - 16/01/2012 10:22:50 AM 712 Views
as someone said on the radio recently... - 16/01/2012 08:41:25 PM 719 Views
They aren't conditioned to murder, much less "in cold blood" - 16/01/2012 09:15:54 PM 798 Views
surprisingly there really is no conditioning to kill - 16/01/2012 09:33:51 PM 727 Views
You used the phrase enemy combatant... - 17/01/2012 10:34:41 PM 704 Views
they are a problematic enemy - 17/01/2012 11:41:11 PM 1015 Views
stop listening to idiots on the radio *NM* - 16/01/2012 09:16:42 PM 366 Views

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