If someone pontificates plainly and confidently on the necessity of intelligence/counterintelligence activity, what are the odds that they are a spy or agent themselves? One that, in their own moral framework, would be fair game to be captured and executed?
In their own moral framework, it’s okay to kill literally anyone, as long as you’re in charge and are willing to say a few words about “national security.” Good to know, I guess. Presumably they mostly live in places where that’s (for now 🥲) not the rule, and would be horrified if someone forced them to go back to places where that is the rule.
Honestly, I think mostly what this means is that they’ve done a good enough job of chasing away all the reasonable people that they’ve entered into an increasing spiral at this point. Everyone has to be most unreasonable in order to stand out, and with no one sensible to compare themselves to, they have to get more and more outlandish in order to be the outlandish-est one.
If someone pontificates plainly and confidently on the necessity of intelligence/counterintelligence activity, what are the odds that they are a spy or agent themselves? One that, in their own moral framework, would be fair game to be captured and executed?
And apparently their friends and families too, “just in case”. Healthy tissue and all that…
In their own moral framework, it’s okay to kill literally anyone, as long as you’re in charge and are willing to say a few words about “national security.” Good to know, I guess. Presumably they mostly live in places where that’s (for now 🥲) not the rule, and would be horrified if someone forced them to go back to places where that is the rule.
Honestly, I think mostly what this means is that they’ve done a good enough job of chasing away all the reasonable people that they’ve entered into an increasing spiral at this point. Everyone has to be most unreasonable in order to stand out, and with no one sensible to compare themselves to, they have to get more and more outlandish in order to be the outlandish-est one.