• TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    “I’m not interested in examining distinctions” is not a rebuttal to being accused of flattening distinctions. It is a confession.

    My argument is not that enlistment is innocent. It is that a material analysis should distinguish recruitment pressure, command hierarchy, profit extraction, and policy-making power. If your framework treats those as irrelevant because everyone falls under the same condemned category, then yes, that is moral flattening with theoretical vocabulary.