I’ve been watching a lot of WWII documentaries and series recently The FR Virtue-and-Piety-Signalers on this thread remind me of many of the FNG stories of these programs.
In the midst of battle they hid and struggled with shooting the enemy. They believed it would tarnish their naïve, moralist image of themselves and the world. A just person in a just world believing ‘God will punish the evil’ so nothing was required of them.
Most never fired their weapons. They died in droves. More than that they got a lot of their teammates killed by shirking their duties, repeatedly giving the initiative to the enemy. To protect the unit seasoned troops would shun, beat the crap out of or get rid of them. Either way the only practical contribution of the self-absorbed neophytes was aiding the enemy -the very people trying to kill their units and them. It was a case of a good men doing nothing and evil prevailing -again and again and again.
Their commitment to preserving their pious self image and naïve view of the world was greater than their commitment to their fellow soldiers and the need to defeat an evil, murderous regime.
To a lesser extent we are dealing with the same issue here. Our enemy is neither civil nor moral. They work to repudiate our value, subjugate our freedoms and eliminate our liberties for the sole purpose of destroying our lives.
So what are you doing to fight the enemy beside posting your self-righteous moralizing on an anonymous forum?
An army of conscientious objectors won’t hack it.
Nasty comments about a dead guy is like soldiers shooting dead enemy.
It servers no useful purpose and just wastes bullets.
The time to engage the enemy is while they are still breathing.
Trash the dead if you want, but you’re just wasting keystrokes.