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You can have a similar impact in your brain and body that fighting a war. Not only in a job. As you said, one main difference is that you can quit your job but
by wslh 3y ago
You can have a similar impact in your brain and body that fighting a war. Not only in a job.
As you said, one main difference is that you can quit your job but not the war. There is a detail: you can experience these feelings even if your job is not toxic.
- senthil_rajasek 3y agoMy comment was specifically about people stuck in a toxic work environment in a civilian establishment and I made no claims about other situations.
- phantomathkg 3y agoUnfortunately you made it sounds like you deject what the page said, anyone taking the advices there is working in a toxic environment and should leave.
- dredmorbius 3y ago"There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander." -- Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H <https://www.quotes.net/mquote/790330 https://www.quotes.net/mquote/790330> War is the job you can't quit.
- rightbyte 3y agoThat you can't legally quit. There are plenty of ways to quit. E.g. deserting, self-wounding. You also got different forms of mutiny and "fragging" officers (not really quiting, but refusing to do the job).
- dredmorbius 3y agoAs the M*A*S*H quote notes, war doesn't only involve combatants, but noncombatants, civilians, neutral parties, children, and future generations. For the last, consider unexploded WWII ordnance routinely uncovered in Germany and the UK (an example of the latter only this week); mines in Vietnam and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, among many other theatres; Agent Orange and other chemicals utilised in various locations (including a sunken trove of mustard gas munitions aboard a US Liberty ship, the John Harvey, lost at Bari, Italy, during WWII); depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan, amongst others; and the political disruptions of national borders drawn either ignorant of or to deliberately exploit local rivalries across the Middle East (Sykes-Picot), Africa, and the Indian subcontinent. Even barring that, and allowing that there are long-term employment conditions (shipping, remote development, expeditions) which might be difficult to quit on a moment's notice, military service at the least has legal proscriptions on arbitrary quitting not found in civilian service.
- rightbyte 3y agoOh ye. In the broader sense. I took it to litteraly about "quiting a job". Like, you can't refuse to be bombed etc.
- dredmorbius 3y agoBingo.