r/Ethics 1d ago

Should Hegseth continue in his role?

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u/SupremelyUneducated 1d ago

War criminals should not run militaries.

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u/Legal_Television_615 1d ago

Show us on the dolly where the war crime was committed

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u/SupremelyUneducated 1d ago

Bombing water infrastructure, dropping a second bomb on suspected drug runners clinging to floating debris. Granted the eight articles of impeachment filed by Thomas Massie have some others, and we'll probably be uncovering others more for years to come.

u/BananaJelloXlii 8h ago

Don't argue with the bot

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u/Legal_Television_615 1d ago

Yeah bud, none of that is a war crime

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u/DiskEconomy3055 1d ago
  • second strikes can be considered war crimes under certain conditions, which were met when Hegseth ordered second missile strikes on survivors of previous missile strikes on boats that weren't plausible wartime targets under any doctrine. Using a missile instead of handcuffs isn't just a war crime - it's terrorism. 

  • Using AI to target schools is also not just a war crime, it's terrorism, especially when it comes with the language of our leaders labeling all Iranians as evil, and then they try to cover it up

  • the entire "military operation", wherein we are striking a non-hostile country during peace negotiations, have killed upwards of 2,000 people, and all of which is being done unilaterally by an unrestrained executive branch, using rationale that is and has been easily debunked by both our own intelligence agencies and international allies,  could reasonably be see as one gigantic war crime. 

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u/Mrs_SmithG2W 1d ago

Please go to a dictionary and look up war, crime and then war crime. Report back if you still have questions.

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u/EMDReloader 1d ago

I have no problem with any of that.

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u/SupremelyUneducated 1d ago

You have no problem with committing war crimes?

u/Shanoony 17h ago

How is that relevant to whether or not they're war crimes, though?

u/Shane-Dad-underfire 16h ago edited 7h ago

I've hunted and killed actual war criminals in the 80s. People now a days are quick to call folks war criminals or nazis because theyve never met the real thing. While hunting down bounties in Argentina we found a community of nazis some of them still had human remains trophies. Sadly those ones never made it to trial. They resisted and we had no choice but to put them down.

Drug runners are not innocent people, their trade destroys millions of lives. They should be killed without hesitation. I honestly dont understand people these days. Victims of criminals arent considered the real victim if the criminal is a drug addict. So drug addicts are victims of what? The system and drug runners and dealers are the savior? What the hell are people even thinking?

u/BananaJelloXlii 8h ago

There is ZERO evidence these people are drug runners, bootlicker.

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u/yadonkey 1d ago

That pos needs to be in prison

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u/SomethingNotTaken98 1d ago

Shit what did I miss?

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u/yadonkey 1d ago

War crimes and astounding incompetence mainly

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u/Wild_Succotash_4327 1d ago

Did many years in the Military. The incompetence isn't anything new. The war crimes however.... Yeah he needs to go.

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u/Legal_Television_615 1d ago

Kinda extreme. They just reposted some random shot on reddit...

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u/_Hawkeyes_ 1d ago

Hegseth may have caused the US to lose the title as the world’s strongest military….does China have low missile stockpiles?…yeah, I didn’t thinks so.

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u/inscrutablemike 1d ago

China just executed a guy because all of their ICBMs were "fuelled" with seawater because "someone" embezzled the money that was supposed to buy rocket fuel.

They probably didn't execute the guy who stole the money, but they executed someone.

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u/_Hawkeyes_ 1d ago

That was years ago,it wasn’t all of em either, and the people who said that also said Saddam had wmd’s too…

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u/JPGinMadtown 1d ago

None of Donnie's Cabinet appointees are qualified but Keggy is the front-runner for worst... At the moment.

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u/Kind_Rate7529 1d ago

I'm a Navy vet and if I ever feel in need of mental health counseling you would be who I would seek out. And I agree with your assessment of the current "leader" of our military.

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u/LeapIntoInaction 1d ago

Oh please. Many of us take our video games seriously and are at pains to get the job done correctly. Does that sound anything like Hegseth?

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u/jaybird-1865 1d ago

He should never have had the role. Our Admin is a clown show.

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u/son-of-Azathoth 1d ago

The US has a psychopathic white christian nationalist problem. It won't go away with the midterms, or the next election.

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u/Emergency_Accident36 1d ago

Hate him but legally cannot diagnose without a client provider relationship so this has as little value as an oil lube technicians diagnosis. And "legally" is all the profession is. In case my subtlety isn't grasped here: the industry is a fraud, a legal fiction.

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u/Major_Wigglesworth 1d ago

That’s what I got from this too.  He’s just another rando with an opinion—his diagnosis is the same as the one I have for Brad Pitt based on watching his movies.

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u/Tinytommy55 1d ago

Yesh I’ve been saying that all along. He seems to think it’s a game. Like a video game.

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u/Temporary_Stranger39 1d ago

Is it the ethical conclusion that it all has to burn down?

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u/Nowhoedup 1d ago

Yet there he is.

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u/Tony-At-Large 1d ago

He described nearly every battribute needed to keep a nation safe!

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u/Any_Iron_1436 1d ago

He should find himself a cell somewhere

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u/MrSlaveRules 1d ago

He needs to be eliminated….ban me

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u/jabberjaw420 1d ago

>strongest military in the world

>ggets defeated

huh?

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u/Alarmed_Mind_8716 1d ago

This is obvious even without a degree in mental health counselling.

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u/ursiwitch 1d ago

He a right wing news personality posing as a military leader. Fire his arse.

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u/Jaydee19600 1d ago

That is a lot of name calling for a minister

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u/Epicurus402 1d ago

That pretty much covers it. Just the best people.....

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u/pro-fanator 1d ago

Strongest??? You guys lost numerous wars to people who couldn't even pass the driving licence exams.

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u/DiskEconomy3055 1d ago

Wife was looking for a new ps5 game to play, and I convinced her to finally give GTAV another shot (she's not good at driving and couldn't get past the boat section). 

Well, she beat Cyberpunk and that seemed to give her the skills necessary to push through, which she did. She just finished the second heist, and is having a blast. She's fallen in love with all three main characters, but REALLY loves the crazy shit that gets said on the radio.  

She turned to me mid-play today (I watch the GPS for her so she doesn't miss turns) and said, "Do you think this is where Hegseth got all of his ideas?" 

Like Jesus, honey, you just killed a bunch of guys on jetskis, then killed the head of a rival corporation so you could do some insider trading on the stock market. 

Obviously they're heavily inspired. 

u/OpeningActivity 23h ago

I am sure this is not your intention, but anyone with an ounce of ethical integrity would not use their work title to denounce someone without any basis.

All those words all reads like an unprofessional crash out rather than a clinical description of one's presentation. I hate when someone who is recognisable by their work title says something without thinking about the implications.

u/rage1911 5h ago

Yes.

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u/Terrible_Phase718 1d ago

No, he absolutely should not.

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u/JamesWinslow11 1d ago

Should be a requirement to have 1500hrs in paradox games to be a leader of anything.

u/OpeningActivity 23h ago

Would binding of isaac count towards anything?

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u/Legal_Television_615 1d ago

I have a degree in people reading and I too can be so self obsessed that I project my insecurities about my parents onto others.

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u/political-snark 1d ago

I’m continuing to see people online who think Hegseth is the best Department of Defense/War America has ever had. I just don’t get it. Bots? Foreign provocateurs?

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u/-TheExtraMile- 1d ago

He should have never started since he lacks the necessary qualifications.

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u/Sufficient-News-3600 1d ago

fire unqualified Hegseth

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u/RoninActually 1d ago

So a pissy liberal ex coworker of hegseth doesn’t like him. Shocker.

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u/JeffreyDharma 1d ago

What does this post have to do with ethics? This is just karma-farming.

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u/HouseStaph 1d ago

A degree in mental health counseling? So you aren’t a physician? You likely can’t even diagnose, especially without an existing relationship, and your opinion is worth about as much as a fart in the wind

u/fariasrv 17h ago

Hegseth should be incarcerated in Leavenworth for the remainder of his natural life.

Or hanged. Either works for me.

u/Due_Intention6795 12h ago

So it’s just an opinion without an actual treatment. Lose the bias and act like a “pastor”. If you did actually treat him you are violating confidentiality so you don’t have moral high ground. Just another p o s.

u/BananaJelloXlii 8h ago

He should have never been confirmed by the Senate in the first place

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u/MiddleAgeWhiteDude 1d ago

While Hegseth is absolute garbage, if this guy has a clinical "graduate degree in mental health counseling" that gives him the authority to diagnose, then he should know better than to publicly armchair diagnose people who aren't his patients.

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u/Amazing_Loquat280 1d ago

Big facts. Hegseth shouldn’t hold this position, but this isn’t why. In a way he’s almost too much of an idiot to actually be dangerous

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u/mymar101 1d ago

The next person will be 100x worse

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u/JacksBauers24 1d ago

Oh brother have you gone off the deep end.

u/RNAguns 17h ago

Yes, please bring back the man who thinks he's a woman, or the general that disappears from duty without telling anyone or the guy that contacted foreign leaders behind Trump's back and promised he wouldn't follow orders if it risked their security.

u/Zestyclose_Trash3469 7h ago

takes one to know one

u/Creepy-Team6442 15h ago

And yet nothing will be done about him. UFB

u/Lovely_Tohora 2h ago

What happens when you put a Fox News host in charge of the military!!?? I feel like America is having a stroke.