Thousands of youngsters have joined the army since October 7 — and it is illegal to refuse. Sofia Orr is likely to become the first woman since then to be jailed for refusing military service, but believes it is ‘wrong to take children and make them into soldiers’
  • GolfNovemberUniform
    212·
    9 months ago

    I do not believe in “nation’s interest”. That’s the thing that made USA an aggressive state. It also means that the minorities’ opinions are completely rejected. And yk politicians often like to do what people didn’t ask them to do. Democracy is good but the right of choosing the country and freely leaving one must always be there

    • tillimarleen@feddit.de
      6·
      9 months ago

      yes, I also don‘t believe in the nation‘s interest, yet it somehow pretty brutally exists. Something‘s got to grow, somethings got to give.

      • GolfNovemberUniform
        41·
        9 months ago

        This is why promoting peace and good ideas is important. If the society is informed, it can change the situation

        • tillimarleen@feddit.de
          5·
          9 months ago

          At first you got to have a good analysis of how society and the economy works. Unfortunately this already is a tricky thing, because not everybody agrees.

          • GolfNovemberUniform
            21·
            9 months ago

            Of course not everybody agrees. And we shouldn’t force them to agree. But it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to make the world better for everyone. Ik it sounds naive but I’m just getting into all of this. Now I’m not an expert at all. I think you get the main idea. I’m not capable of detailing it very much yet

            • NuclearDolphin
              2·
              9 months ago

              I think the point they are trying to hint at is that it makes sense to try and understand the emergent forces that culminate in events as horrific as war.

              You may “not believe in national interests” but something closely resembling that is a force governing social behavior.

              So while it is important to pass moral judgements on these phenomena, you will be more effective at doing so if you can abstractly evaluate them absent moral judgement. Just as you couldn’t coherently understand an ecology if you cannot accept obligate predators as a concept because of the moral implications of predation.

              We will all differ in our moral and strategic assessments, but we all cohabit the same world, in which we can all recognize common truths arising from nature.