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> service men and women will be there fighting regardless of whether it was right or wrong because the cost of missing the right call is too high Thank you, th
by prodigal_erik 17y ago
> service men and women will be there fighting regardless of whether it was right or wrong because the cost of missing the right call is too high
Thank you, this is the first time I've seen it argued the people enlisting realize and accept the country is likely to squander their time and risk their lives over nothing worthy of them. I could never reconcile their somehow overlooking that with the dedication they bring to the work.
- david 17y agoAs if the cost of carrying out the wrong call isn't too high either? The worst case isn't that soldiers' time is squandered or that they risk their lives over nothing worthy, it's that they kill and destroy needlessly, but I guess we don't really tend to come to terms with that fact as well as the people we're fighting.