The common defense i find valid is that people can be propagandized in the most propagandized nation to ever exist and are just going to make mistakes.
Nothing is going to wash the stain off of service but I feel like cancelling someone indefinitely who wants to do better is a stupid puritan move. You would have made the same decisions if you were born as them, arguing against that isn't coherent with a materialist perspective.
Same goes for former cops and rich people who want to give me their money.
Like fuck Engels for being a rich person but also cool he actually did something useful multiple times for people like me. I have the capacity to feel both ways and I dont feel like its an invalid way to look at things
That's fair but if you were an American over here you wouldnt be immune to doing the same thing they did. I don't think you're wrong for hating Americans and American military, you should, especially the ones who were in your country.
Also, personally, I do say that about people join ISIS or were Nazis.
I feel its not the bad actions that make you a bad person, it's when faced with the "badness" of what you've done, if you don't change and do what you can to make it right then you're a bad person.
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The common defense i find valid is that people can be propagandized in the most propagandized nation to ever exist and are just going to make mistakes.
Nothing is going to wash the stain off of service but I feel like cancelling someone indefinitely who wants to do better is a stupid puritan move. You would have made the same decisions if you were born as them, arguing against that isn't coherent with a materialist perspective.
Same goes for former cops and rich people who want to give me their money.
Like fuck Engels for being a rich person but also cool he actually did something useful multiple times for people like me. I have the capacity to feel both ways and I dont feel like its an invalid way to look at things
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That's fair but if you were an American over here you wouldnt be immune to doing the same thing they did. I don't think you're wrong for hating Americans and American military, you should, especially the ones who were in your country.
Also, personally, I do say that about people join ISIS or were Nazis.
I feel its not the bad actions that make you a bad person, it's when faced with the "badness" of what you've done, if you don't change and do what you can to make it right then you're a bad person.
Yeah i agree