John Spencer
Not sure they read the article. I can spell it out, draw it on a chalkboard, but it doesn't seem to work. Maybe they missed this part: "The central issue is the confusion of two entirely separate systems: civilian criminal law on the one hand, and the conduct of war on the other. These exist for different purposes, under different real-world constraints, and, by practical necessity, are governed by different rules. Not accounting for such different conditions is a kind of moral blindness."
Dissident Media
John is performing some moral gymnastics here, the whole essay boils down to this: When they kill innocents, it’s “morality under fire.” When you defend your family, it’s murder unless signed off by a bureaucracy. The “laws of war” are codes drafted by the same states that start the wars and all that spilled ink cannot transform mass civilian deaths into morally clean acts. It’s just another regime illusion. A set of bureaucratic rituals to cover up an ancient, brutal truth: the strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.