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• Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would it be okay, then, for me to rob, torture, and kill your family if it was the only way for me to get higher education (i.e. something that is not necessary to live)?
  What about the families these monsters kill that won’t be able to receive higher education on account of being dead or kidnapped?

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• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Joining the US military means killing Iranian schoolgirls. Is “wanting to escape poverty” a valid excuse to murder children?

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  • Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is surviving a reason for doing something bad?

    I’d say yes and anybody that disagrees has probably never been in that situation.

    There is a reason the military recruits the poor.

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    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Surviving is when you go work for or McDonalds not kill brown children. Such a pathetic excuse for mass murer.

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      • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You have no fucking clue what you are talking about

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      • Fluke@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Spoken like someone who’s never truly known desperation or genuine hunger. ie. One of the bourgeoisie who’d be first against the wall.

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    • whereitsat@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      there are lots of ways to ‘survive.’

      let me ask you question: what’s worse from a moral standpoint: stealing an old ladies purse or killing someone? what about pitching a tent on land that someone else owns? what about parking your RV in a wal-mart parking lot overnight?

      some of those things are crimes and you’ll be looked down upon even if you don’t get caught.

      so, why do we say ‘thank for your service’ and then turn around and see the thief as less than human?

      i’d rather have someone poach on my land than bust into my house and shoot me in the face. i’d think anyone would feel that way.

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      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That whole thank you for your service thing is also distinctly American. No where else does that.

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      • Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t thank people for their service. I understand that some people needed to to survive. You’re legally allowed to park in wall mart overnight with an RV at a majority of locations as well.

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    • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You either agree that the people your empire has been invading have a right to defend themselves by eliminating your ss troops, or you think that your ss troops deserve to survive and get higher education.
      Which is it?

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    • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the reason is capitalism. but it doesn’t excuse those who voluntarily join.

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• zeezee@slrpnk.net ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  would you say the same for ICE? they also recruit from poor migrant communities because they’re most desperate and the pay and perks are good - would you say they’re justified in joining and terrorising the ones that didn’t?

  and while I 100% agree that propaganda and the system failing them is the main reason driving that - we don’t counter the propaganda by normalising the poor-to-terrorist pipeline as “well the system sucks but you gotta do what you gotta do” - there are red lines and if we could collectively resist them - we starve the system from being able to force people into the meat grinder

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