• terranoid@lemmy.cafe
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    3 days ago

    The problem with the military being a necessary evil is that your own military ends up being the evil that forces others to have their own necessary evil.

    Not saying the military shouldn’t exist, but we should be way more careful about who ends up running it and what we let them do. Before you know it, unelected officials end up running meetings that choose where they go and who they bomb, based on intelligence gathered from other unelected officials and corporations.

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      Every country might require a military, or at a minimum a population educated in warfare, gun handling and tactics, but not every country’s military needs to be consistently active