[MD] Flying Spagetti Monsters

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Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Arlo asked]
> Is there anything Soldier Platt could be ordered to do, that he would say "no"
> to? If not, how does that make him any better than Soldat Hermann would did
> whatever the Reich ordered HIM to do? 
> 
> [Platt]
> Because Soldier Platt would be fighting to defend a Constitution which
> guarantees Individual-Intellectual Level rights. Again, you seem to have
> trouble making moral distinctions between Nazis, Commies, IslamoFacists and
> Americans.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Of course I do, I'm just a moronic "liberal". But your premise seems to be that
> because Soldier Platt is serving in the *American* military, nothing he could
> be ordered to do would ever be immoral. So, since nothing America ever does is
> immoral, blind obedience to the state always leads to moral action. That's what
> you're saying, no?

No.

> In other words, WE should be blindly obedient to our state, because our state is
> perfectly moral and pure, but OTHERS should NOT be blindly obedient to their
> state, because their state is NOT America, and hence is imperfect and capable
> of immoral activity. Good summary?

No. There is a moral difference between states that you apparently either do
not see or cannot admit. 

> I'm sorry, you can think what you will, but I believe that such uncritical
> deference to the state leads invariably to evil. And if you think America is
> somehow "above" that, you're sadly mistaken. I prefer soldiers who say "no,
> that is immoral" than those who just do whatever is ordered of them, telling
> themselves that because the order came from THEIR state, it can't possibly be
> immoral.

You are sadly mistaken to think America is not morally superior to many other
states.
 


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