Because commissioned officers write the rules that make them feel good and strong and important, and remind anybody who hasn’t gone to college that they’re mangy peasants unworthy to be in said college graduate’s presence.
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riodoro1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Military is such a fucking joke. Why the fuck would you salute anyone for anything? Bunch of fucking power freaks with a domination kink and their equally as kinky doggies who would literally die for a piece of colored rag on a stick oil company profits.
dfc09@lemmy.world 1 year ago
EarWorm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only purpose of a mandatory military service like where I live is to teach young people to obey authority without question. That somehow makes you “a real man”.
TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
You live in Finland.
We have military service here because we’re a small country with a large and aggressive neighbour that not only has attacked us within living memory, but is currently demonstrating what it does to neighbouring countries that it thinks it can get away with attacking.
If military service makes sense anywhere…
EarWorm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am not against military service. I am against MANDATORY military service. Do you honestly think that giving people a choice is a bad thing? That making people choose between learning to kill and obey or going to jail is justified? Or do you think that the majority of young people wouldn’t serve if it wasn’t mandatory? Please.
TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
This is like saying:
No-one wants mandatory military service, but it’s necessary for the sake of society as a whole. Maybe one day it won’t be, but clearly that’s not the case now.
As for choice, you do have a choice and you know it. Civilian service is a thing here.
raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
It’s necessary in order to get soldiers to kill or go die as both of these are unnatural to humans.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would killing be unnatural to humans. Even in the nomadic lifestyles we hunted for food.
Pat12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are multiple studies showing that humans are hesitant to kill another human.
academic.oup.com/book/12748/…/162864298?redirecte…
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society is a book by Dave Grossman exploring the psychology of the act of killing and the military and law enforcement establishments attempt to understand and deal with the consequences of killing. The book is based on S.L.A. Marshall’s theory that the majority of soldiers in war do not ever fire their weapons due to an innate resistance to killing
raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Killing other humans specifically. …berkeley.edu/…/hope_on_the_battlefield
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Power tripping AND undoubted autnotify? How could that ever go wrong!