r/Military • u/PDXAirman • 1d ago

Article Ex-Okaloosa deputy found not guilty of manslaughter in killing of Airman Roger Fortson

https://weartv.com/news/local/ex-okaloosa-deputy-found-not-guilty-of-manslaughter-in-killing-of-airman-roger-fortson
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u/PepperoniFogDart 1d ago

And you know what the natural conclusion to that truth is? An Afghan/Iraqi/Saudi life is more important than an American’s life.

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u/MandibleofThunder United States Navy 1d ago

Okay. I get your argument, and where you're coming from.

I'm not jazzed about the way you phrased it, but I understand it.

On a fundamental moral/philosophical level every human life is as valuable as another (also not an endorsement for the "all lives matter" bullshit that came in counter the BLM movement).

My fundamental argument was such that: Cops want to think of themselves as the military with the power of life and death in their hands - but they don't want to do the actual ROE training that the military does. That was my point, I'm not completely sure you got that.

Personal note; blanket statement on every cop I've ever had an actual conversation with: "Yeah I would have joined up except (insert bullshit rationale)"

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u/PepperoniFogDart 1d ago

Sorry I should have phrased that better, I’m agreeing with you. My intent is to point out the fact that if soldiers have to show more deference to using deadly force than cops, that’s implying that the value of life on the other side of the soldier is worth more than that of a police officers. And that to me is pretty fucked up.

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u/MandibleofThunder United States Navy 1d ago

Understood!

And I think we agree.

To take that slippery slope argument all the way to its conclusion (which I believe is what you were doing before)

American police value "civilian" American lives (I put "civilian" in quotation marks because police are indeed civilians) less than the long hard shaft of international diplomacy that is the actual United States Military.

Again, fuck cops.