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Oneironaut

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13. Actually the American notion of "Good guys" vs "Bad guys" needs to die.

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Tue Dec 24, 2024, 11:14 AM

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It was heavily abused in the Iraq War for example - If Saddam Hussein was bad (torture chambers, etc), we must be the good guys, right!?

The US has been different levels of shitty since its inception. Sometimes we were really shitty, like with the Iraq War, but, so was the other side. That made it ok in our morality system.

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