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by vrganj 72 days ago
I would feed the children of both Nazis and Dissenters, but not under Nazi command.

To do so reinforces and legitimizes the power structure, and that is what I take issues with. Children are not enemies, I am fully with you on that.

The enemy is power structures and me not supporting a particularly harmful one might save more children than the concrete act of me feeding them personally.

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And yet you have not even remotely addressed how this translates to every US government job being a morally / ethically bankrupt job.

You wave your hands about, and cite far flung examples of how it could be, then there is not here, but then is not now, the future is not now, and we are speaking of the current.

If your concern is that it "could be" at some point, well I hate to break it to you, but that also covers every type of job you might imagine. "Could be" covers a lot of change and time. "Could be" is a wide brush to paint with, especially considering the object isn't even before us, but a misty, intangible, not yet formed thing.