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0 pointschii1d ago0 comments

> Surprised comments are so negative

it's because people cannot disassociate their own anti-war views with the benefits of a military career.

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Are 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?

applfanboysbgon1d ago

What 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?

chiiOP1d ago

You 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).

conductr1d ago

The 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.

tdeck1d ago

People 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.

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somenameforme1d ago

Yeah 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.

silisili1d ago

More than 80% of the US Army are noncombat roles. Only the naive or uneducated associate someone in the US Army with killing people.

applfanboysbgon1d ago

Ah yes, your job is simply to carry the ammo for the guys slaughtering schools full of children, so to speak. Squeaky clean conscience!

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soulofmischief1d ago

Are 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?

applfanboysbgon1d ago

What 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?

chiiOP1d ago

You 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?

conductr1d ago

The 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.

tdeck1d ago

People 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.

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somenameforme1d ago

silisili1d ago

More than 80% of the US Army are noncombat roles. Only the naive or uneducated associate someone in the US Army with killing people.

applfanboysbgon1d ago

Ah yes, your job is simply to carry the ammo for the guys slaughtering schools full of children, so to speak. Squeaky clean conscience!

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