Reply to Re: Human Rights
If you don't have an account, just leave the password field blank.
they're being manipulated
The reasons that people join the military are complex. Manipulation may be involved, but also economic pressure (the military pays for all sorts of things that are otherwise unattainable for poor people).
But whatever the reason is, they do risk their life doing it. Depending on your definition of "hero", that can be considered heroic. In my opinion even mediocre firefighters are more heroic than most other people because of that.
the true heroes are the ones looking at the harm they are causing overseas and turning on the part of the army that won't listen.
As far as I'm concerned, many of them are victims themselves (because of the recruitment methods). How they deal with that is their choice.
But that doesn't apply to all of them, of course. There are soldiers who enjoy killing others and who don't care if they need to (Chris Kyle comes to mind). Those are not heroes as far as I'm concerned. But they're also not the problem here; that's the people ordering the war (Bush, Cheney, Obama).
The reasons that people join the military are complex. Manipulation may be involved, but also economic pressure (the military pays for all sorts of things that are otherwise unattainable for poor people).
But whatever the reason is, they do risk their life doing it. Depending on your definition of "hero", that can be considered heroic. In my opinion even mediocre firefighters are more heroic than most other people because of that.
the true heroes are the ones looking at the harm they are causing overseas and turning on the part of the army that won't listen.
As far as I'm concerned, many of them are victims themselves (because of the recruitment methods). How they deal with that is their choice.
But that doesn't apply to all of them, of course. There are soldiers who enjoy killing others and who don't care if they need to (Chris Kyle comes to mind). Those are not heroes as far as I'm concerned. But they're also not the problem here; that's the people ordering the war (Bush, Cheney, Obama).
