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Edited by ash:
2/4/2013 5:13:45 PM
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Why do we portray war positively and defend its violence?
One of my friends sent me the above vid, and I thought about his points. I always see that ads try to say that soldiers fight for our freedom everyday, like if they stopped shooting for a day, we'd be invaded. Like if they would stop launching airstrikes, we wouldn't be able to live happily. Like if we stopped sending young men and women to their deaths, we'd be enslaved by terrorists.
They, IMO, don't fight for our freedom right now. This fight is a useless one. It is one the Soviets tried and failed, and is one we will also fail to do. We should stop thinking that we're freeing people or saving them by putting their country into more of a shit hole than what they started out as.
One of my distant cousins joined the military, he seemed like he was brainwashed by some recruiter, saying his college will be payed for, he'll see new places, have an adventure, make life long friends. He used to be funny and out going. But when he came back and we visited him, he wasn't the same. Him and a bunch of his buddies from high school went with him, some of them are dead and most of them were severly maimed. Lucky for him onlly was shot 5 times and had two toes blown clean off. I KNOW he's suffering from PTSD, but he has to much pride in him to admit to it. He finished his college since then, but I don't see much of him anymore.
His service is still highly respected by me, despite the feelings I have towards war violence, but I think we need to fight wars the REALLY matter. The fights we fight now don't. Stopping Hitler from killing anymore millions of people was "the fight for freedom". But we don't have wars like this anymore. We should stop glorifying war unless the cause is worth the death and suffering.
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1 ReplyEdited by StolenGhost: 2/5/2013 8:55:59 AMIt's all a matter of perspective. War is intrinsic to humanity. You do not know what others experience. The argument for freedom is moot, for it is unattainable at its core. The person who wrote this post has distorted the truth about the horrors our fellows have seen. To suggest we eliminate the byproducts of billions of years of evolution from humans in fifty years is absurd. Albeit depressing, heroes tend to suffer and often die for their cause, that's what makes them heroes. All capitalist governments will be neutered by greed. As populations increases, freedoms decreases. This is inevitable. The issue here is our government, not "war" Quite simply, you can't have your cake and eat it too, because in the real world, the figurative cake belongs to all life. To the OP. I understand why you are angry, however you make your points using the same ethical rules as your accused. Don't lie next time. This world will forever be tarnished by the facts of life, but whether we enjoy it or not is a decision we all make each day. Your enemy is the perpetuation of greed and the abuse of trust, not the beliefs of others. All of us are ultimately in the same boat, talking about it gets us nowhere, you must act, evolution and faith will fix all the rest. Your opinion may be that it is not a worthwhile fight, mine differs in that I believe fighting for others to be ethically imperative, however our government only does this selectively, and that is the real crime.
