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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
So are you willing to accept in the same level of understanding that someone might hate Obama enough to oppose him and his policy in public, on a forum, or as one of the 75,000 who protested against him this week on the Mall? Or do you just push that off as another group of racists?
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Oh I can see why people might hate him. I don't necessarily think opposition to Obama is race-based (I don't know that it isn't either).
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And you are willing to defend a Child Pedophile but not a soldier. WOW, that speaks volumes.
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As opposed to some other kind of paedophile? :P Does it also speak volumes that I am a regularly attending and paid up member of the Royal British Legion? Through which organisation I have many veteran soldier friends, of all ages. Some from recent conflicts and some old soldiers.
This is the kind of nonsense I am talking about Merc. It's unreasonable to leap so easily to condemnation or defence. Soldiers are not gods nor are paedophiles monsters. They're all just people. Soldiers can and do commit crimes, paedophiles can and do commit good acts. the very thought that someone might have paedophile desire renders them subhuman in your view, regardless of if they've ever acted on those thoughts, yet you cannot see how someone might have seen their daughters or wives suffer at the hands of soldiers and feel aggrieved.
I don't condemn soldiers. I do more than the average person to support them. But nor do I deify them. In war, terrible things are done and crimes are committed. Some soldiers rape and kill innocents. It happens in every major conflict, in every warzone, in every occupied land. Yea even unto the dawn of humanity. Recognising that fact and understanding how that might impact upon the victims of it is not a condemnation of all soldiers.
But hey: you stay comfortable in your little bubble, where hero soldiers do no harm.