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Originally posted by Pragma
Would just joining the military make someone a sociopath? For a lot of people, it's their last option, looking to get out of a dead end job or town (for example, I know someone who was a rancher's son in Montana who joined up to get out of there). If you think just joining the military makes someone a sociopath, you have a very distorted and inaccurate view of the military.
With the exception of the Marines, where every Marine is a rifleman first, a lot of the branches don't give their personnel a lot of weapons training - and a lot of people don't touch guns at all while in the military, they repair computers, planes, cook meals, act as Air Traffic Controllers, etc.
Also, soldiers aren't really given a choice about going to Iraq and fighting - deserting is not an option, and if you are given an order, you obey it. So I hardly think that being ordered "Go liberate Iraq from Sadaam Hussein" makes every (or most) soldier a psychopath.
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I said it before and I will say it again, they do have a choice, they had a choice not to join the military. It doesnt matter if they are in a dead end job or they hate where they are, whatever the case may be, they knew what they were getting into. These "heroes" knew that they could go to war and kill people, but that did not stop them. So dont give me the bullshit execuses.