Bidinotto: “Let me spell…
Bidinotto: “Let me spell it out for you: You are assuming (1) that the American soldiers are acting immorally, and (2) that they know their activities to be immoral, but are ignoring that fact.”
No, I’m not. I’m asking you whether or not it is true that individual soldiers bear at least partial moral responsibility for the actions they carry out, even when they are acting on orders. And further whether large-scale surrender of individual conscience under military orders (whenever it happens) is “horrifying.” Neither I nor the passage I asked you about says anything at all about whether in fact the conduct of soldiers in the Iraq War specifically is immoral.
(And yes, I realize that the rest of the article does make that point. So what? The question is about the passage that you singled out for excoriation, not the rest of the article.)
Bidinotto: “Neither is the case. So — no, the last statement is not applicable.”
I didn’t ask whether it was “applicable” to the Iraq War or not. I asked whether it is true or false.
So, is it true?
Anticopyright.