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>> If the military’s recruiting efforts are successful, these kids and teens will end up applying the skills they honed while playing games they love to warfare

>> If the military’s recruiting efforts are successful, these kids and teens will end up applying the skills they honed while playing games they love to warfare – piloting drones to kill from afar, for example. If the people they kill are our enemies, who are also trying to kill us, then isn't this a good thing? I never served in the military and lean pretty far left politically, but I'm always surprised by how some circles portray the military as a caricature of senseless killing. If some actor decides they want to force their way of life on me and my fellow citizens by military force, then the best and only response to that is a strong military.

silverquiet 3y ago
That seems reasonable, but my only real experience with someone depriving me of my livelihood is private equity companies that have come in and shipped my job off overseas. Certainly the military didn't help me there.
- whythre 3y ago
  What. That isn’t the role of the military. This is like complaining that the local police failed to prevent your company from downsizing. Plenty to criticize about how or what the military is doing, but this ain’t it, chief.
  - silverquiet 3y ago
    I agree completely. What I'm saying is that I find the military nearly irrelevant to promoting the general welfare of the US. I'm not particularly worried about Canada or Mexico getting any big ideas about starting anything with us in the foreseeable future.
soared 3y ago
The idea is that no actor has ever tried to force their way of life on Americans. We’ve been attack on home soil a tiny number of times.
jowea 3y ago
First, there are a lot of people who really are pacifist or pacifist leaning. And even for the rest, for the large number of people living in countries that haven't been invaded in living memory, I don't think they think of the military like that. In the US case, I assume people will think of what the military has actually done in the last few decades, i.e. Iraq and Afghanistan, and maybe some smaller things like ISIS, Yemen, Libya etc. By the way, what game teaches any sort of militarily applicable skill? There's no regenerating health in the real world and officers don't lead with right clicks.

silverquiet 3y ago

That seems reasonable, but my only real experience with someone depriving me of my livelihood is private equity companies that have come in and shipped my job off overseas. Certainly the military didn't help me there.

whythre 3y ago
What. That isn’t the role of the military. This is like complaining that the local police failed to prevent your company from downsizing. Plenty to criticize about how or what the military is doing, but this ain’t it, chief.
- silverquiet 3y ago
  I agree completely. What I'm saying is that I find the military nearly irrelevant to promoting the general welfare of the US. I'm not particularly worried about Canada or Mexico getting any big ideas about starting anything with us in the foreseeable future.

soared 3y ago

The idea is that no actor has ever tried to force their way of life on Americans. We’ve been attack on home soil a tiny number of times.

jowea 3y ago

First, there are a lot of people who really are pacifist or pacifist leaning. And even for the rest, for the large number of people living in countries that haven't been invaded in living memory, I don't think they think of the military like that. In the US case, I assume people will think of what the military has actually done in the last few decades, i.e. Iraq and Afghanistan, and maybe some smaller things like ISIS, Yemen, Libya etc. By the way, what game teaches any sort of militarily applicable skill? There's no regenerating health in the real world and officers don't lead with right clicks.