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Originally Posted by MLeake
Second, there is the issue of the risks and decisions people are willing to make, from the command and control end, when they are at a safe, video-game like remove from the action.
This is a big deal. It disturbs me how members here are blowing it off.
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I concur this is a really big deal in a number of ways. That's why I was ranting about it, somewhat incoherently upon rereading, some postings back.
Read this;
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/09/living...html?hpt=hp_c1
And then Google "did we just kill a kid" and read some of those.
We are dehumanizing war and turning it into slaughter. Certainly not everyone involved. But it's happening. And I fear for our claim as the shining city on the hill.
And to justify it we'll make it antiseptic like Star Trek's episode "A Taste of Armageddon" seemed so civilized.
But it isn't so civilized from the other side. "Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest." -- Bion, Greek bucolic poet (~100 BC)
(Apologies to whoever's signature I stole.)