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Skybird · 07-01-09, 07:32 AM

Think of them as mercenaries for whose service you must not pay, but who pay you!

Honestely, I do not see why bloodtourism that pays for the voyage, is morally inferior than renting mercenaries who get payed for killing people. Sounds like mawkishness to me.

The question is: do you want to fight pirates by use of force, or not. So far the answers mostly is not. And this is where these sensitive sentiments that feel so very shocked by that tourism idea are coming from.

If I oppose the tourism idea, than it is because I oppose the idea of privatised violance - including mercenaries and merc-companies - in principle, for where private business is allowed to form an interest in maitaining a state of war, that is not helpful for politics aiming at establishing peace. Sentimental moral indignation has little to do with it, for me.

07-01-09, 07:32 AM	#14
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,604 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Think of them as mercenaries for whose service you must not pay, but who pay you! Honestely, I do not see why bloodtourism that pays for the voyage, is morally inferior than renting mercenaries who get payed for killing people. Sounds like mawkishness to me. The question is: do you want to fight pirates by use of force, or not. So far the answers mostly is not. And this is where these sensitive sentiments that feel so very shocked by that tourism idea are coming from. If I oppose the tourism idea, than it is because I oppose the idea of privatised violance - including mercenaries and merc-companies - in principle, for where private business is allowed to form an interest in maitaining a state of war, that is not helpful for politics aiming at establishing peace. Sentimental moral indignation has little to do with it, for me. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.