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butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway · 14 days ago

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Yesterday my wife and I were discussing the abject nonsense that is the Designated Survivor tv show (I like trash because it's trash fuck off) and I was talking about like. The motivations and informatics of warfare tactics [some people are War Guys TM because they like nazis, I'm a War Guy TM because I think strategy is a fun way to occupy my brain when it's about a war that already ended] and wifey was just like "Yeah, obviously the Geneva Conventions are just a suggestion" to which I replied "as in all things, I remain unconventional" so now whenever she sees me around the house she points at me and goes "most likely to commit a war crime for fun and profit" AND I CAN'T EVEN ARGUE I DID THIS TO ME

#war crimes are war crimes for a reason folks don't do them #and also #understand that the reason war crimes happen is because people refuse to accept their own ability to commit one #we would likely all be willing to do some pretty fucked up stuff in defense of our families and loved ones #like we didn't have to define war crimes because they were so bad nobody would do them #we had to define war crimes because they are ENTIRELY TOO EASY TO JUSTIFY with the language of annihilation of the self #if you think you're incapable of committing a war crime that means you have not actually thought about the circumstances #under which you might be legitimately pursuaded to commit a war crime and what it would take to stop yourself from doing that #sometimes people tell me that lacking empathy makes your morality and ability to make sound and pro-social decisions questionable #but ime it is those with easy access to empathy who have never actually thought about what it might look like for their empathy to he #hijacked by pursuasive and charismatic orators and actors #truly i don't trust anyone who hasn't actually thought out why a war crime needs to be prevented beyond #Only A Monster Would Do That TM

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