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> Surprised comments are so negative it's because people cannot disassociate their own anti-war views with the benefits of a military career.
by chii 7mo ago
> Surprised comments are so negative
it's because people cannot disassociate their own anti-war views with the benefits of a military career.
- soulofmischief 7mo agoAre you admonishing people for not being selfish and making decisions which benefit themselves even if it puts them in a position where they can't say no to wronging someone else?
- applfanboysbgon 7mo agoWhat does this even mean? "If you just ignore the fact that your job is murdering people for no reason, the benefits are great!" Why, exactly, should people "disassociate" that?
- silisili 7mo agoMore than 80% of the US Army are noncombat roles. Only the naive or uneducated associate someone in the US Army with killing people.
- applfanboysbgon 7mo agoAh yes, your job is simply to carry the ammo for the guys slaughtering schools full of children, so to speak. Squeaky clean conscience!
- aaronbrethorst 7mo agoTechnically those were precision guided munitions carried by Air Force bombers. So you can enlist in the army with a clear conscience.
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoYou're wrong. The girl's school was hit by multiple Tomahawks as video evidence shows. The US Navy is the only service capable of firing Tomahawks. The root cause is DoD intelligence folks failed to get recent surveillance on the girl's school near a former IRGC building before adding it to the target list. It was probably a target passed along from Mossad but no one in the US kill chain did any due-diligence that they're supposed to do. Furthermore, offensive weapons release by a drone or ship requires an officer to give the final order.
- chii 7mo agoYou are asking whether someone should not have picked the military career if it was the best fit for them, just because you are personally morally against what they do? That's why i dont confound the military with the political aparatus's directing of said power. Because the military isn't murdering people for no reason - they are following (in the case of the west) a elected official's policy (which you are very welcome to dislike and oppose, as i do as well).
- conductr 7mo agoThe negativity isn’t anti-military service. It’s because this specific expansion at this particular time for this current administration is all very ridiculous. I think most people still are in support of the idea if military service even if that job may entail death.
- tdeck 7mo agoPeople should look up what the US military has been up to for the past half a century if they think this particular time is an abberation.
- conductr 7mo agoHowever you choose to look at it, military service is still widely respected as a duty to the nation and a place were patriotic sentiments exist. I’m not debating the right or wrong of it, but it just is so. I’m pretty sure the entire history of militaries have been full of people enlisting to die and kill on behalf of some random politician they don’t necessarily agree with. There’s nothing particularly notable happening differently. But Trump being the clown he is, this is laughable.
- somenameforme 7mo agoYeah just think of how great it would've been to serve in the past decades. Oh wait you'd still end up killing people in the Mideast - half way around the world, and in turn getting killed by them, all in endeavors that ultimately make the world a worse and less safe place. And that certainly includes America.