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Bill to require factual teaching about U.S. Capitol attack clears Va. General Assembly
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I don't know that I can fully blame every soldier for that. There's plenty of kids who have no idea what they're joining. There's plenty of them they get disillusioned by their service, too. Do they all deserve to die?
Like, the military does massive propaganda campaigns to lure in young and impressionable teenagers. And some of the recruits are just people that need a place to live, sleep, and eat. I can understand why someone would be against all of them, but I don't think I can. There's a lot of extremely poor people that have few other prospects, and the way the US pushes success = status really makes it hard for me to think that the brainwashed deserve death.
You wanna stop the military? Give everyone a decent standard of living, and that'll do it.
They deserve to die as much as any Russian orc who volunteers to go into Ukraine. Not all are evil, some are just ignorant/stupid, but all d code to willingly join an organization that has been killing innocents for as long as any of us have been alive. The US military might frame itself as a defender of freedom, but everyone paying attention knows that’s never been the case. We’re all victims of our situation, but at a certain point we also all have to be responsible for our actions.
How old are you? Like you're not wrong, but you're taking like someone who still thinks everything is much more simple than it actually is. No offense.
I’m an old millennial. I don’t make excuses for my own behavior, so I won’t make any for others. Not taking personal responsibility for our own actions is how we get to the fucked up world we have now. Everyone wants to make excuses for why people do evil acts. US service member is no better than one from any other nation. I’ll hold them to the same standard as I would anyone else. Russian soldiers are responsible for the orders they follow, same as IDF, same as the SS, and same as US soldiers. Just following orders isn’t an excuse, and “I kill people for 3 hots, a cot, and the GI bill” isn’t a valid excuse either.
Okay fair points. Are you religious? Sounds like "Taking Responsibility" and "Receiving Punishment" are inseparable from your perspective.
IMO we wouldn't have these problems if human beings weren't fundamentally capable of being manipulated. As such I do have reservations about treating every single soldier like they're a war criminal.
Lastly, I think one thing to feel no remorse and entirely another to say everyone categorically deserves what happens to them.