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Thomas @djamesalicious.bsky.social

"nobody should shoot at people." are you arguing for abolishing the military?

jul 9, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0

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Mallory Where @malwhere.bzky.team

Sure

jul 9, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thomas @djamesalicious.bsky.social

Good luck. I think the vast majority of people disagree there's never a time to shoot people though

jul 9, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Mallory Where @malwhere.bzky.team

I mean. If you have basic reading comprehension skills, you can see that, in context, what I was actually saying is simply “do not shoot at ICE officers because it’s not likely to help anything.” But like, since you’re randomly bringing the military into it, yes, I am a pacifism absolutist.

jul 9, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mallory Where @malwhere.bzky.team

I am aware that it is not a popular opinion.

jul 9, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thomas @djamesalicious.bsky.social

There's a difference between bad strategy and morally wrong. Personally I don't think John Brown was morally wrong. I don't think the Jews in the Warsaw uprising were morally wrong.

jul 9, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mallory Where @malwhere.bzky.team

I would say that ethical frameworks which permit individuals or groups to do violence in self-defense or defense of others may be valid and may be held to by admirable people who do great things. I do not think the US military is such an entity.

jul 9, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mallory Where @malwhere.bzky.team

but also like dude. do you just go around this website looking for pacifists to argue with or what

jul 9, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thomas @djamesalicious.bsky.social

I'm ornery because people keep pretending nazism emerged fully formed in 1944 and ignoring we're doing basically everything they did in the 30s

jul 9, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mallory Where @malwhere.bzky.team

Okeydokey well it seems like you want to have an argument with someone else in that case

jul 9, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thomas @djamesalicious.bsky.social

well then I saw your post and I wanted people to think about if they consider the Warsaw uprising immoral or not because we're headed there

jul 9, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mallory Where @malwhere.bzky.team

I get a different version of the same question about the nazis basically any time anyone learns that I am a pacifist. As a Pole and a descendant of Poles who were murdered by nazis, I am capable of recognizing the bravery and sacrifice of the Warsaw uprising while condemning all violence.

jul 9, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view