We have an idea of what is right or wrong. And we can debate moral issues as ideas. But moral *standards* are not ideas; they exist in the form of observable measurable behavior. What one sees, hears, and feels every day, by observing how people around one behave, inculcates such standards of behavior.
Karl MarlantesIt is not trivial to lie in a report. . . . At the time I wrote it I actually believed what I wrote to be true, fervently. . . . Yet, when I wrote it, I also knew it wasn't true. I call this the lie of two minds.
"I" convinced "myself." The I that did the convincing was the one who needed desperately to justify the entire experience, to make it sane and right and okay and approved. Myself was convinced as the moral self, the part of me I would want to be a judge in a legal system. This moral part of us, however, in these extreme situations, is vulnerable to the overwhelming force of that part of us that needs to justify our actions. . . With this lie I'd lost myself. Perhaps this too adds to the shame.
Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.
Karl MarlantesTags: war resistance shadows
We all have shit on our shoes. We've just got to realize it so we don't track it into the house.
Karl MarlantesTags: issues shit shit-happens
Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.
Karl MarlantesQuitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body
Karl MarlantesThe time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.
Karl MarlantesEverything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.
Karl MarlantesTags: war death holy-spirit
How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.
Karl MarlantesTags: war madness mad defend attack switzerland karl-marlantes
Mellas knew that Hawke was letting him squirm. Then, without looking up, Hawke said, 'Look, Mellas, in the Navy or Air Force they give you a medal for what the Marines call just doing their job. In the Marines you only get a medal for being braver than just doing your job." Then he looked at Mellas. 'You get in fixes where medals are handed out because you were unlucky and had to fix things, or because you were stupid and had to fix things. Be carful what you're wishing for.
Karl MarlantesTags: war vietnam marines quotes-that-make-sense medal-of-honor
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