Why should soldiers be any different? It’s just a job. No, it isn't. People who serve in the armed forces and their families have a different lifestyle to almo

Why should soldiers be any different? It’s just a job. No, it isn't. People who serve in the armed forces and their families have a different lifestyle to almost anyone else. They make many sacrifices and lack many protections at work that others enjoy, for obvious reasons. They are trained in ways that profoundly affect them psychologically, because they may be forced to see or do things that in an ideal world no-one should ever have to see or do, and neither their mindset nor their experiences of those awful things just magically change back to normal when they're discharged. While serving in the forces may develop some admirable character traits and in some cases some very useful practical skills that would serve them well in other fields after they leave, that does not go for everyone, and many ex-forces personnel have great difficulty adapting back to civilian life, even if they've had a good military career. Abandoning people almost immediately after they've been through that, as if they're just leaving behind a web site they used to run or some clients whose accounts they used to put in a spreadsheet, is somewhere near the wrong end of the inhumane/unethical scale.