SCP Aesthetics: Deer College (requested by anon, written by ch00bakka)
Deer students ("Deeries") are independent, curious, intellectual, and full of character; no two are exactly alike, but they all share the same love of inquiry into things man was not meant to know.
(green, university life, sorta)
if you can admit john is an imperialist then you should be able to identify how the preservation of imperial conditions is reliant on violence, both exported and internal, but that the violence internal is not criminal in character due to how criminality and illegality are constructions steeped in sites of violence at which imperialism must fortify itself. the exceptionalisation of violence within as deviant is part of how imperialists carve out spaces of civility from which violence can be exported, and where the import of violence is branded terrorism, as it allows them to frame that interior violence as isolaled incidents that are the product of abnormal and essentially criminal minds that are incompatible with civility鈥攖hus allowing them to maintain that this violence is not intrinsic to civility 馃榿
all of this is to say john isn't a war criminal because that's a purely legal concept that is meaningless in-universe, because there is no criminal court and established jurisprudential processes he can be labelled one under as house society is the only one allowed to flourish, and out, because to call an imperialist a war criminal is to misunderstand how imperialists utilise criminality and illegality to protect their own interests. if you want a word synonymous with violence to call him then imperialist is already that