
Originally Posted by
damentz
A lot of these discussions can be closed by looking at the issue using philosophy.
The US violates the non-aggression principle. How? It invades a country without their permission and kill people. This is not news, the US government is immoral. To further widen your field of view, all forms of statism are corrupt, because the government uses force to get what it wants.
Here comes the contradiction - if taking things by force is immoral, then why does the government threaten you at gunpoint for you to pay your taxes (you essentially are threatened by the police and then thrown in jail if you resist paying for something you don't believe in) after it indoctrinates your children in public school that a lot of obvious things are bad and evil, like violence and stealing?
The most successful thieves convince everyone else that stealing is wrong.
Anyway, going back to my original point - there's nothing interesting to see here. Yes, the US has soldiers it deployed going crazy killing people. What did you expect when you ship soldiers over sea, each with different levels of child trauma, that affect their psychology and their impulse to change things by force, instead of think through problems.