Suicide is immoral.
It is strange to have to say that, but there seem to be a lot of people in the West these days who believe suicide is morally obligatory. According to these moral geniuses, when a man comes into your house, rapes your wife, murders some of your children, and abducts others, you have a moral obligation to leave him be, so long as he hides behind his own family members.
After all, you are morally superior to that man.
And that’s what matters.
Your feeling that you are not like him.
Never mind that you’re not like him — that you didn’t invade his house, kill him, rape and murder his wife, murder some of his children, and kidnap others. Never mind that you’re trying to stop him from doing the same thing again and trying to prevent others from following in his footsteps.
If you hurt anyone he puts in harm’s way while attempting to stop him, you are like him.
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Never mind that he will repeat his actions if he is allowed to escape.
Never mind that he has vowed to repeat his actions until you are exterminated.
Never mind that kindness to the cruel is cruelty to the kind — that if you let this man go, others will follow his example, that more innocent people will die.
You must ensure he has access to electricity and water.
You must protect his life in order to prevent harm to the family he uses as human shields.
You must give him every advantage because he is evil.
Were he less evil — were he not to hide behind his own family members, for example — then you’d have free rein to kill him. But since he is evil – well, then, the only thing to do is throw up your hands and walk away, incentivizing those like him to pursue his insanely evil tactics.
If this sounds idiotic, that’s because it is. It is moral idiocy of the highest order.
And yet there are those who proclaim it from our nation’s most sophisticated ivory towers. They would never live by such rules. They live in gated communities, far from the consequences of their own foolishness. They never feel the consequences of the perverse morality they promote. These are the same people who promote defunding the police and open borders while living in gated communities.
But, of course, they aren’t calling for their own suicide — they’re calling for yours.
You are supposed to let in millions of refugees, most of whom are likely to hate American values. You are supposed to leave them in power to pursue their next atrocities. After all, those people are members of their coalition of the supposedly “decolonized” dispossessed. Their evil is merely a symptom of your evil. What they believe and what they do is your fault.
The only solution is for you to commit suicide.
If you refuse, then you’re as bad as they are. And if you don’t, you’re dead.
Your choice.
Or, at least, that’s the choice they want you to make.
But there is another choice: to reject that disgusting construct wholesale. To point out that genocidal murderers don’t get a free pass just because they hide behind members of their own family. To stand strong in the face of calls to honeycomb our own society with pro-genocide members or their unvetted compatriots.
Yes, of course, those of moral bent ought to work to minimize civilian casualties, for example. Yes, of course, those of moral bent ought to work to find a place for civilians to escape from the line of fire.
But neither of those rules can be prioritized above the first rule of war: winning.
War is ugly by nature. Nearly the ugliest thing.
As it turns out, there’s only one thing uglier: losing to those who don’t care about morality or decency at all. Those who advocate such defeat — those who encourage suicide in the face of evil — are complicit in that evil.
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