Reply #24: my discussion of military tactics at DU doesn't endanger servicepeople. [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

it's not advocacy. advocacy = "I will do that, you should do that, they deserve it, they're not human."

open advocacy ("they should be tortured," "I would torture them,") of extrajudicial torture & murder of child molesters *does* create a social climate that condones & normalizes the possibility.

& the history of guerilla tactics in the past can easily be used to advocate for the use of similar tactics in the present.

& if your criteria is "the death of innocents" then we'd better ban any pro-war, pro-"peacekeeping" discussion here too. because they all involve the deaths of innocents.

you're wrong. there's a line between advocacy ("go kill") & discussions of morality & tactics.

the military is on its way to painting this guy as advocating violence. the evidence presented so far doesn't support that.