You can’t seriously be equating the moral shortcomings of taking a bribe to the complete immorality of imposing a draft on others and forcing them to march towards near certain death
I definitely can. It would be a completely different topic in russia where they draft people to sustain occupation. If Ukraine stopped defending now, you’d have Buchas and Mariupols all over Ukraine with many dead. So I don’t really see it as immoral as much as it sucks for everyone involved.
Compared to that, taking bribes from desperate people is next level fucked up and it’s effectively profiteering on genocide.
Dude, Ukraine was invaded. The last time the US has had to use a draft for circumstances like this was the Civil War, and everyone now thinks it was warranted then.
So it would be only fair if Society does not provide any services whatsoever to draft dogers so: citizenship revoked, no ownership of anything they cannot hold and defend themselves, if they’re victims of a crime “though luck”, no firemen, no use of communal spaces including roads, no public Schools, no emergency medical care and even no indirect benefits like FDIC insurance on their bank deposits and many others.
If you have no duty to Society then Society has no duty to you, aka you’re a Pariah, worse than that even, as anybody can kill you anytime they feel like it since Society does not even has that duty to you - if you have no duty towards everybody else then they have no duty to enforce “rights” for you: it’s only fair since “rights” only exists because Society has agreed to them and enforces them so those who don’t agree with contributing to that agree to have no rights (and, as I said above, that also means the Right To Live and the Right To Ownership as well as any Citizenship Rights).
Strangelly, the crowd claiming they want Freedom only seems to want Freedom of their duties never Freedom from all those “Rights” than everybody else as a Society is making sure they have.
Yeah, well, you’re slowly getting to my point: if you want to live amongst other people you have to abide by common rules since your Freedom ends were other people’s Freedom starts.
(Which is how we ended up with the complex beast which is the Nation State, with all its imperfections)
Absolutelly, some people would love to trully be free in the genuine sense of the word and there really aren’t that many places on Earth were that is possible (they were born in the wrong Age, IMHO), but most people seem to want Freedom AND all the upsides of Human Civilization both at the same time, in other words, Rights without Duties.
You won’t find a single country on this planet that wouldn’t draft their citizens in a wartime situation while you’re running out of soldiers. Not a single one.
True, but it’s a spectrum, some countries are much more violent and corrupt than others. Arguably Russia ranks #1 in corruption, violence, and terrorism.
Russia’s troll farms out here complaining about every other country, when they are globally causing the most problems.
Objection. I would argue that Saudi Arabia ranks #1 in corruption, violence and terrorism and since we are at it i would also want to point out that the west is a partner of SA and sell them plenty of weapons.
Russia’s troll farms out here complaining about every other country, when they are globally causing the most problems.
Is Russia the country that spends more money on psyops and propaganda?
Arguing who’s less of a criminal or less of a dictator sounds like hitting the bottom of the barrel anyway and it’s exactly the game these warlords want people to play.
Saudi Arabia is far up there, but Russia is still objectively worse.
The Russia simps like to “whataboutism” pretty much everyone else for doing smaller crimes than Russia. It’s cliche, it’s low IQ, Russia exports troll farms and nuclear terrorism, we get it.
Right. I just seemed to have missed the part where the facebook leadership was forced into excile and has it’s assets siezed by a 20 year long revolution/war that ultimatily defeated facebook, established a country and than granted the ceo a token “company”, entirly at the mercy of the revolutionaries.
I don’t know shit about The Vatican, the pope, their history, or their dumbass religion (obviously, and on purpose!). Thanks for taking the time to respond to give me some insight. However, your comment reads to the layman like , “They changed their name and are way better now,” and it’ll read that way to almost anybody without your extensive knowledge of useless things.
I was just making a joke about a small country without an army, because the previous comment’s “challange” and wasn’t trying to make any furher points. I don’t even know why it escalted like this.
Running out of soldiers? I thought the Russians were a bunch of morons who can’t do anything and the Ukrainians were beating their asses in their sleep? Why would they need more soldiers?
If your country is being invaded, you don’t have a choice. War is a savage and cruel phenoma. It turns people into animals. What an invading side can do to civilians under occupation is beyond comprehension. The Nanking Massacre comes to mind in modern memory.
You may regard yourself as a pacifist and in the moral high ground, the women and children who get systematically raped and mutilated through no fault other than being a trophy for monsters to use, would think of you in another view.
I know I’m being brutal with my words, but the real fucking crime is the fucking invasion. Zelensky has to do everything to defend it’s existence.
Children and neighbors can be moved. I don’t live in Ukraine, but when shit hit the fan, I was watching the news daily, while thinking about the most efficient way to pack everyone up in the car, and get the hell out. Luckily, the front line has stabilized relatively far from the western borders of UA. That’s enough of a buffer between me and russia for now.
If the situation ever changes, I’m not going to wait for the bombs to fall. I’m going to try to outrun them. It would suck to loose my home, but life is worth more to me than a bunch of bricks.
A real crime here is the draft. And before the tankies start circling this post, it applies to russia as well.
I usually dislike picking hairs of evil when the alternative solution was getting annexed back into a cultural meat grinder
Downvotes for a comment pointing out that forcing people to fight and die is fucked up? Okay, people…
Calling it a crime is fucked up. Especially in a thread where actual crime (taking bribes) is discussed.
You can’t seriously be equating the moral shortcomings of taking a bribe to the complete immorality of imposing a draft on others and forcing them to march towards near certain death
I definitely can. It would be a completely different topic in russia where they draft people to sustain occupation. If Ukraine stopped defending now, you’d have Buchas and Mariupols all over Ukraine with many dead. So I don’t really see it as immoral as much as it sucks for everyone involved.
Compared to that, taking bribes from desperate people is next level fucked up and it’s effectively profiteering on genocide.
Dude, Ukraine was invaded. The last time the US has had to use a draft for circumstances like this was the Civil War, and everyone now thinks it was warranted then.
There were drafts for the Vietnam shitshow as well.
I think people generally agree that the drafts for the Vietnam war were not justified.
Drafts are never justified, you don’t own anyone else life
And they don’t owe you anything either.
So it would be only fair if Society does not provide any services whatsoever to draft dogers so: citizenship revoked, no ownership of anything they cannot hold and defend themselves, if they’re victims of a crime “though luck”, no firemen, no use of communal spaces including roads, no public Schools, no emergency medical care and even no indirect benefits like FDIC insurance on their bank deposits and many others.
If you have no duty to Society then Society has no duty to you, aka you’re a Pariah, worse than that even, as anybody can kill you anytime they feel like it since Society does not even has that duty to you - if you have no duty towards everybody else then they have no duty to enforce “rights” for you: it’s only fair since “rights” only exists because Society has agreed to them and enforces them so those who don’t agree with contributing to that agree to have no rights (and, as I said above, that also means the Right To Live and the Right To Ownership as well as any Citizenship Rights).
Strangelly, the crowd claiming they want Freedom only seems to want Freedom of their duties never Freedom from all those “Rights” than everybody else as a Society is making sure they have.
Let me know where you sign up to renounce to public services and stop paying taxes
If it were possible to live somewhere without government interference, I would do it in a heartbeat.
Yeah, well, you’re slowly getting to my point: if you want to live amongst other people you have to abide by common rules since your Freedom ends were other people’s Freedom starts.
(Which is how we ended up with the complex beast which is the Nation State, with all its imperfections)
Absolutelly, some people would love to trully be free in the genuine sense of the word and there really aren’t that many places on Earth were that is possible (they were born in the wrong Age, IMHO), but most people seem to want Freedom AND all the upsides of Human Civilization both at the same time, in other words, Rights without Duties.
Didn’t teach history in your school?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States
You missed the “for circumstances like this” part. There were certainly other uses of the draft for other circumstances that are looked at poorly.
WWI and WWII didn’t have a direct US invasion, and we’re also looked at positively, but is out of the scope of the discussion.
You won’t find a single country on this planet that wouldn’t draft their citizens in a wartime situation while you’re running out of soldiers. Not a single one.
And it would still be fucked up in every single one of those countries.
You won’t also find a single country on this planet that isn’t rooted on violence and that isn’t ruled by corrupted politicians
True, but it’s a spectrum, some countries are much more violent and corrupt than others. Arguably Russia ranks #1 in corruption, violence, and terrorism.
Russia’s troll farms out here complaining about every other country, when they are globally causing the most problems.
Objection. I would argue that Saudi Arabia ranks #1 in corruption, violence and terrorism and since we are at it i would also want to point out that the west is a partner of SA and sell them plenty of weapons.
Is Russia the country that spends more money on psyops and propaganda?
Arguing who’s less of a criminal or less of a dictator sounds like hitting the bottom of the barrel anyway and it’s exactly the game these warlords want people to play.
Saudi Arabia is far up there, but Russia is still objectively worse.
The Russia simps like to “whataboutism” pretty much everyone else for doing smaller crimes than Russia. It’s cliche, it’s low IQ, Russia exports troll farms and nuclear terrorism, we get it.
The Vatican.
BATTLE-POPE, INITIATE COMBAT SEQUENCE.
FREEDOM FROM YOUR SINS IS NON NEGOTIABLE
that’s because the Vatican already drafts them to keep their heads in 1600, therefore they don’t know what modern warfare is
Don’t rest assured, for most of his history the vatican was a kingdom with his own army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_the_Papal_States
But the Papal States were different. The country of Vatican City as it exists today was only established in 1929.
Now, Facebook was evil. But, Facebook was different. The Meta Platforms, Inc., as it exists today, was only established in 2021.
/s, just in case you didn’t pick up on my heavy use of it
Right. I just seemed to have missed the part where the facebook leadership was forced into excile and has it’s assets siezed by a 20 year long revolution/war that ultimatily defeated facebook, established a country and than granted the ceo a token “company”, entirly at the mercy of the revolutionaries.
What a great analogy.
I don’t know shit about The Vatican, the pope, their history, or their dumbass religion (obviously, and on purpose!). Thanks for taking the time to respond to give me some insight. However, your comment reads to the layman like , “They changed their name and are way better now,” and it’ll read that way to almost anybody without your extensive knowledge of useless things.
I was just making a joke about a small country without an army, because the previous comment’s “challange” and wasn’t trying to make any furher points. I don’t even know why it escalted like this.
They changed their name
Costa Rica doesn’t have an army
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Running out of soldiers? I thought the Russians were a bunch of morons who can’t do anything and the Ukrainians were beating their asses in their sleep? Why would they need more soldiers?
If your country is being invaded, you don’t have a choice. War is a savage and cruel phenoma. It turns people into animals. What an invading side can do to civilians under occupation is beyond comprehension. The Nanking Massacre comes to mind in modern memory.
You may regard yourself as a pacifist and in the moral high ground, the women and children who get systematically raped and mutilated through no fault other than being a trophy for monsters to use, would think of you in another view.
I know I’m being brutal with my words, but the real fucking crime is the fucking invasion. Zelensky has to do everything to defend it’s existence.
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So you think Ukrainians being genocided is preferable to Ukrainians being drafted?
Really weird take there.
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So you’d off yourself if you were drafted? Or do you think only Ukrainians are better off dead?
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Regular draft is unacceptable. But this is not a regular draft.
a brilliant attempt to bothsides this invasion situation right here
No. The invading side is clearly worse. If it weren’t for the invading army, there would be no war.
Forcing people to risk their lives for a piece of dirt is still evil though.
I think the calculus is different here, because it isn’t just dirt. We’ve seen what happens to cities and civilians when Russia invades an area.
They’re not defending just “dirt” they’re defending THEIR CHILDREN AND NEIGHBORS.
Children and neighbors can be moved. I don’t live in Ukraine, but when shit hit the fan, I was watching the news daily, while thinking about the most efficient way to pack everyone up in the car, and get the hell out. Luckily, the front line has stabilized relatively far from the western borders of UA. That’s enough of a buffer between me and russia for now.
If the situation ever changes, I’m not going to wait for the bombs to fall. I’m going to try to outrun them. It would suck to loose my home, but life is worth more to me than a bunch of bricks.
wow. just wow.
Whelp.
The point goes sailing so far over your head I wonder about your last reply.
As long as it’s not the bombs…
You do realize the irony of “dirt doesn’t matter, it’s just dirt” when you’re not moving right now because…people are defending their own dirt???