Starting and perpetuating flamewars like this is not allowed on HN, regardless of how right your views are or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this.

This was really, really bad. Please don't do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23887383.

Do you honestly think the military is a criminal activity? Not specific things that happen inside it (obviously some people in the military commit crimes). But as a concept?

What would you replace it with? Nothing? How do you think a nation could defend itself without a military?

How do you think the US was founded? We are the strongest nation because we have the strongest military. Where would the US be without it's military? At best we could be Japan, but even they have their own military, and rely on ours to protect them.