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I am more ok with destroyed roads then with expansive war or atrocities and so on. Those cause way more harm. I not ok with racist education. By I am even more not ok with army being used for racist project - and that one causes more harm.

Also, by current legal standards, soldiers are supposed to refuse orders if those lead to genocide and such. It is so after Nuremberg after WWII.

I am very fine with the rare Russian soldier refusing to fight Ukraine. The one following orders when "filtering" or killing civilians should be prosecuted.



When push comes to shove, it's about power. F.ex. the desegregation of Arkansas schools [0]. If don't have force to command, you don't have authority.

My point that the very existence of laws (any laws!) is predicated on access to force.

Without force, you can only have those rules to which everyone voluntarily agrees, and continues doing so.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine#National_Gu...


> When push comes to shove, it's about power. F.ex. the desegregation of Arkansas schools [0]. If don't have force to command, you don't have authority.

I would point out that segregation itself was hold by forces. The particular unit went there, because local ones were onthe other side.


Please read the entire entry. What happened after that?




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