ext_299122 ([identity profile] montecristo.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-07-19 01:58 pm (UTC)

I'm not saying... WHY NOT? Why should the military get a pass?

Your black-hearted meanness is social pathology, mine, on the other hand, is righteous indignation and understandable defensive outrage...

Why does the military get a pass? Are we suggesting that sociopathology cannot or does not hide behind patriotism?
Thank You for Your Service? (http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance250.html) by Laurence M. Vance
Imperial Priorities: Obedience First, Character Last (http://lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w223.html) by William Norman Grigg

"It is without question that Americans are in love with the military. Even worse, though, is that their love is unqualified, unconditional, unrelenting, and unending."
Laurence M. Vance

I think our perverse love of violence, or bland indifference to it, when it is covered in patriotism and slathered with baseless references to "the collective security or interest" could easilly count as a form of mass sociopathology according to the criterion applied in this post.

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