Idiocy knows no bounds
Tell me which other workers are subject to the principle of "unlimited liability," Professor Webber? You asinine popinjay.
It's not the Afghan effort that's being glorified here, it's the voluntary sacrifice in service to one's fellow Canadians, in full knowledge of what that sacrifice might entail. The hierarchy of loyalty: sovereign, state, superior, subordinate, and - purposely the very last of all - self. No other profession demands that. That's why a death in uniform is fundamentally different than any other "workplace accident."
(Hat-tip to SDA by way of Andrew Potter)
Nothing distinguishes the soldier from the civilian more strikingly than the acceptance that one of the basic rights that may have to be forgone in the national interest is the right to life. This requirement to give up one's life for one's country is spoken of in the military literature as "the clause of unlimited liability". This is the essential defining or differentiating characteristic separating soldiers from their fellow citizens.
It's not the Afghan effort that's being glorified here, it's the voluntary sacrifice in service to one's fellow Canadians, in full knowledge of what that sacrifice might entail. The hierarchy of loyalty: sovereign, state, superior, subordinate, and - purposely the very last of all - self. No other profession demands that. That's why a death in uniform is fundamentally different than any other "workplace accident."
(Hat-tip to SDA by way of Andrew Potter)
posted by Babbling Brooks at 12:48 p.m.
3 Comments:
Some one whom the phrase "two way range" is totally wasted.
Combat deaths are not a "workplace accident".
Accidents are avoidable, and preventable, given proper policies and training.
The chances of dying in combat can be reduced, but never avoided or prevented.
I think this is a good thing, because hopefully these wankers will be exposed to considerable public scorn and ridicule. The public knows hypocrites and mean-spirited ideologues when they see them and with any luck the reaction will be ... well, less positive than the professors would have anticipated.
Hopefully someone will point out that the children of tenured professors at most universities get reduced or free tuition (although I don't know if that's the policy at U of R).
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