You know honestly I think the percentage of people who join the military because they wanted to defend the United States is well I don't know what it is. I think a lot of guys from the south absolutely feel that way and I don't want to discredit them at all.
But I think there are a whole lot of people who join the military for the benefits for the money. It's just no question about it so they're basically saying I'm willing to kill people for money. And the fact that the government gives me an excuse to do it and leads my mind at rest because I can believe it's for the good guys I'm still killing people for money.
I think a whole lot of other people join because they really have nothing else they can do.
And I think a whole lot of other people join because they want to kill people. And maybe it's good to have a place for those people to go so they're not killing people on the streets as much but there's that too.
Personally I never wanted to kill anybody else. Sure I'd do it if my life was threatened or anybody I cared about was threatened by them but I never wanted to be in a business that killed people or caused them harm and I've turned down plenty of business opportunities that would have made me a lot more money because I didn't want to get involved in something that's hurt whose purpose was to kill people or indirectly cause them harm.
So I'm with you really I have lost a lot of respect for a lot of people in the military and I don't automatically do the whole thank you for your service thing. It'd be very different if we were truly at war.
I think after 9/11 there were a lot of gullible people who really thought that we were at War and what they were doing over in Iraq was actually saving the country and I don't fault them for being gullible but if you talk to him now most of them realize what they did was not to save the country and that's what causes a lot of them a lot of stress and and PTSD and I think it's a reason a lot of them killed himself too because they killed a lot of people and they remember killing a lot of people and they now realize it was not for a good cause.
Crackinjokes 0 points 3 months ago
You know honestly I think the percentage of people who join the military because they wanted to defend the United States is well I don't know what it is. I think a lot of guys from the south absolutely feel that way and I don't want to discredit them at all.
But I think there are a whole lot of people who join the military for the benefits for the money. It's just no question about it so they're basically saying I'm willing to kill people for money. And the fact that the government gives me an excuse to do it and leads my mind at rest because I can believe it's for the good guys I'm still killing people for money.
I think a whole lot of other people join because they really have nothing else they can do.
And I think a whole lot of other people join because they want to kill people. And maybe it's good to have a place for those people to go so they're not killing people on the streets as much but there's that too.
Personally I never wanted to kill anybody else. Sure I'd do it if my life was threatened or anybody I cared about was threatened by them but I never wanted to be in a business that killed people or caused them harm and I've turned down plenty of business opportunities that would have made me a lot more money because I didn't want to get involved in something that's hurt whose purpose was to kill people or indirectly cause them harm.
So I'm with you really I have lost a lot of respect for a lot of people in the military and I don't automatically do the whole thank you for your service thing. It'd be very different if we were truly at war.
I think after 9/11 there were a lot of gullible people who really thought that we were at War and what they were doing over in Iraq was actually saving the country and I don't fault them for being gullible but if you talk to him now most of them realize what they did was not to save the country and that's what causes a lot of them a lot of stress and and PTSD and I think it's a reason a lot of them killed himself too because they killed a lot of people and they remember killing a lot of people and they now realize it was not for a good cause.