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RE: A drone operator (An original short story)
Wow, what a powerful story.
You've nicely incorporated the elements of the image. Now, if it were only so easy in real life to erase the individual responsibility for such evil as your story depicts. Sadly, becoming an actor on behalf of the state in no way absolves the individual of personal responsibility for his actions. 😄😇😄
Thank you!
Yeah. This is a complicated issue. A young man goes to the army, to defend his country, and then finds out that he’s ordered to do something fishy. As a soldier, he has to follow the order of his superior. Without discipline no army in the world would work. We are lucky to live in a country where a person has some kind of a choice and, at least, can walk away from this.
War, in general, is a product of greed. That’s where the main problem resides. But what can people do about it if greed is incorporated in our very nature, which if not controlled, would lead us as species to destruction?
As for incorporating a picture, I hope that the lady, who was so angry at me for asking questions on the content of the picture, will see why I needed it. LOL
Thanks again for stopping by and reading.
Thanks for your response.
Yes, war is a product of greed. "Countries," are products of mass hallucination, and do not in reality exist. Therefore, submitting oneself to an organization (e.g., the army) and "following orders," absolves no one of moral responsibility. Agreed that no army can work without discipline, but a group of people can defend their own property by mutual agreement.
I consider the initiation of force, as depicted in your very interesting story, to be fundamentally evil.
BTW, I'll take a wild guess here that you may be a chiropractor or massage therapist of some school? :)
Yeah. Initiation is evil. However, once it's already started, it's hard to repel the aggressor without an army and a discipline, especially if the aggressor is lead by a very faulty ideology like Hitler. But yeah. Better live without wars.
As for being a massage therapist ... Not me. LOL But a dear friend of mine.