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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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9. Even if our military had no guns, their existence would still be about violence.

Mon Oct 12, 2015, 06:25 AM

Oct 2015

It's what a military IS. A means of employing violence to achieve an end.

So saying you support the military (any military) is acknowledging the fact that you support the use of violence as a means to achieving ends.

They're not 'dead soldiers' because they were playing pattycakes. They're dead because they went to use violence, and somebody else used it on them first.

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