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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Yes. Because as we all know, war is all about cute little ducks and soft fuzzy kitties.
Talk about rhetoric. Have you never heard of gallows humor? It's what these guys use to keep themselves sane. And as far as killing without sympathy, empathy or remorse goes...I don't know about you, but I want the guy that's watching my back, in a hostile situation, to kill with no sympathy...no empathy...and I hope, no remorse.
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It's gallow's humor on the surface, perhaps, but the reality is that soldiers all over the world are now commonly taught to hate without reason those who they are told to hate. What if it's another military in your back yard killing you without even trying to figure out why they are trying to kill you? How many innocent lives would be saved if the guy with the gun gave split second's thought to why he's opening fire on unarmed people?
Soldiers without remorse or morality are not soldiers, but weapons; souless machines that may do what they want whenever they want without being bogged down by conscience. That's wrong. That's the best way for people, be they innocent or guilty, to be murdered. Soldiers should be just and fair and honest and seek to protect the peace. My grandfather was a very proud Army officer, and he exemplified what I'm talking about. He fought bravely across the Pacific in WWII, he fought in Vietnam and Korea, but he was very clear that the US was wrong to be there and that not only would we regret the wars, but he would never be proud of a military that blindly followed orders. The military has the right to say no to the monkey in the oval office if they know that his orders will directly lead to endangering the US or our allies, or the Constitution. They would have been justified in saying "no" to the Iraqi War.
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
This comment disturbs me a bit...
What kind of people do you hang around?
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People that don't kill other people, for one.
I have no idea when people started thinking it was necessary to remove your soul from the battlefield, but whenever that was, the soldier died and the killing machine was born.