• middlemuddle@beehaw.org
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    your argument necessitates finding conduct like that acceptable if it occurs

    It really does not and you’ve completely misrepresented that poster’s argument. You can try to make the argument that their claim and executing POWs can be linked, but I think it’s absolutely ridiculous. Support your opinion, or try to make a logical connection, if you like. At the moment, you’re just putting words in someone else’s mouth.

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      Support your opinion, or try to make a logical connection, if you like. At the moment, you’re just putting words in someone else’s mouth.

      i think i’ve more than substantiated the point—it seems pretty clear to me that the poster just refuses to bite the bullet because they recognize biting said bullet would cast them as kind of psychotic. as with them: it’s not “putting words in their mouth” because you don’t like the conclusion of your own logic.

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        i think i’ve more than substantiated the point

        How have you done that? You’ve equated “there is a rationale for using cluster bombs” with “support executing POWs”. These are not comparable and have extremely different impacts. War is not black and white and things that are bad are not all the same level of bad.

        For the record, I don’t support the use of cluster bombs and think it was a bad move by the U.S. to supply them.