Is Abu Ghraib the Military Version of Reality TV?
Dear Mike Hum
The article “Is Abu Ghraib the military version of reality TV?” is unpleasant to read. It tries to give the reader, the vision that US soldiers in this period are not responsible for their actions on torturing of other peoples (Iraqis) but rather the orders in chief. The soldiers act was because of hypothetical imperative and not by their own desires. This is total disagreeable. The most categorical imperative act is when your own life is at risk and to save it you must commit things you normally would not. This is because of our new society of individualism and occupied of our own needs before we can think about our neighbor/fellow man. A soldier can quit and take a normal job. They knew that they would commit these things but chose to stay. This is why it is a categorical imperative action.
Mike blames the media for the controversial act by the public. For example saying on the internet that they (people) are feeling bad or alike but does not take a single action. Then he keeps writing that we should blame the elite and they are the cause of disaster and evil, which makes it sound like a crazy tin foil hat-wearing person. We should stop pointing at fingers at others (rich people, government etc.) but at ourselves for a moment. Just like in the supersize me, we learned that blaming food companies would not solve the obese epidemic in the world. The solution is to change people’s eating habits, the same applies to the fault of torturing in Abu Ghraib or other tragic events. The accountability for horrifying episodes should be us as a community (as a single organism). If there really is a “secret society” or “elite” as Mike Hum describes then we as people should fight back together. Because they cannot be commanders without their soldiers or a government without a population.
Sincerely Mr.X
The article “Is Abu Ghraib the military version of reality TV?” is unpleasant to read. It tries to give the reader, the vision that US soldiers in this period are not responsible for their actions on torturing of other peoples (Iraqis) but rather the orders in chief. The soldiers act was because of hypothetical imperative and not by their own desires. This is total disagreeable. The most categorical imperative act is when your own life is at risk and to save it you must commit things you normally would not. This is because of our new society of individualism and occupied of our own needs before we can think about our neighbor/fellow man. A soldier can quit and take a normal job. They knew that they would commit these things but chose to stay. This is why it is a categorical imperative action.
Mike blames the media for the controversial act by the public. For example saying on the internet that they (people) are feeling bad or alike but does not take a single action. Then he keeps writing that we should blame the elite and they are the cause of disaster and evil, which makes it sound like a crazy tin foil hat-wearing person. We should stop pointing at fingers at others (rich people, government etc.) but at ourselves for a moment. Just like in the supersize me, we learned that blaming food companies would not solve the obese epidemic in the world. The solution is to change people’s eating habits, the same applies to the fault of torturing in Abu Ghraib or other tragic events. The accountability for horrifying episodes should be us as a community (as a single organism). If there really is a “secret society” or “elite” as Mike Hum describes then we as people should fight back together. Because they cannot be commanders without their soldiers or a government without a population.
Sincerely Mr.X