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Morals Under the Gun: The Cardinal Virtues, Military Ethics, and American Society

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We give to the military the power of life and death over other people. We teach our young men (and our young women) how to fire a rifle, the basic weapon of all soldiers. This is important because without that knowledge disasters happen as they did at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea.

At the same time we must also teach them when, why and at whom to fire a rifle (or not to). And to fire a rifle at another human is a difficult thing. It's a thing that we are taught not to do all of our civilian lives. The military spends a great deal of time thinking about this problem, because when it fails, as at the abusive prisons, Kent State, or Mei Lei the results are truly tragic.

The author has written a call to arms to make the understanding of the profession of arms understood in our country.