(06-03-2024, 04:53 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(06-03-2024, 03:58 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Intelligence is the higher moral position?

From strictly a humanitarian view, it's a deplorable moral position. From a contemporary real worldview, it is an essential moral position.

Eh, I retract my position. Kind of.

I think there is a solid argument to be made for intelligence gathering. Maybe we glean some insight through the tragedy. To that degree, I don't care to argue it. However, I just can't help but see this as a money grab as much as anything else. I just can't unsee how much we incentivize the military industrial complex to keep us in a state of constant war. So long as it's other people dying, we are content as Americans to enable perpetual war. For profit. It bothers me.

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