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**DrJonson** · 03-04-2011, 04:19 AM

I have a tough tiime getting bent about the inadvertant killing of a handful of Afghan kids.

It wasn't intentional and those boys were only going to get raped by village elders for the next couple years of their life anyway - before they settled down to become Afghanistan's next generation of child molestors, wife beaters, and heroine manufacturers.

At least one or two of them probably would have made an effort over the next couple years to wound or kill Americans or to serve those who would, if they hadn't already been involved in some degree of insurgency.

So the death of these children doesn't really register on your moral compass because of things they might have done in the future?

Most "collateral damage" is lamented by people but tolerated, and I think your words illustrate a particularly ugly aspect of that. The death of noncombatants happens -- when they're the "other guys" it's nothing to worry about because they probably would have become delinquents or enemies anyways.

If we can tolerate noncombatant deaths so nonchalantly, then what the fuck differentiates us from those bombing funerals and markets and towers?

03-04-2011, 04:19 AM	#36
DrJonson Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 411 Senior Member	I have a tough tiime getting bent about the inadvertant killing of a handful of Afghan kids. It wasn't intentional and those boys were only going to get raped by village elders for the next couple years of their life anyway - before they settled down to become Afghanistan's next generation of child molestors, wife beaters, and heroine manufacturers. At least one or two of them probably would have made an effort over the next couple years to wound or kill Americans or to serve those who would, if they hadn't already been involved in some degree of insurgency. So the death of these children doesn't really register on your moral compass because of things they might have done in the future? Most "collateral damage" is lamented by people but tolerated, and I think your words illustrate a particularly ugly aspect of that. The death of noncombatants happens -- when they're the "other guys" it's nothing to worry about because they probably would have become delinquents or enemies anyways. If we can tolerate noncombatant deaths so nonchalantly, then what the fuck differentiates us from those bombing funerals and markets and towers?
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