Comment on Question about Australian towns
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 month agoYou’re misunderstanding the intent. They are memorials for sons lost at war.
There is definitely no worship. I recommend contemplating your idea or worship, and considering what every person who’s respectfully replied to help.
It’s memorial. Lost sons. That’s it.
Nobody loves war. The memorials are out of respect to the communities that lost huge numbers of their men to needless war. That’s the all of it.
No worship. Consider that for a moment.
guismo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It may be a bad term I’m using. Maybe I can say respect, simply? In my view, it’s bad to respect wars. Lives were lost and I understand people want to remember, but they should fear and hate the idea that it happened and why.
Unlike what the other guy commented on me, it’s not pacifism. If someone hits you, you should defend yourself. But never celebrate, make memorials or things like that because you did it.
And while the guy hated me for thinking, I do believe that people sent to war, soldiers, and their deaths should be seen differently than other deaths. They went to another country to kill people and died. I know it sounds horrible that I have that opinion, but I just don’t see war the same way.
People who died in Australia killed by invaders I see in a very different way. People killed in any invasion for that matter. Australians killed invading another country is a different thing.
If you come to my house to kill me and I end up killing you, I see it as a very different thing from if I go to your house to kill you and end up dead. Even if everyone thought their reasons to go there kill the other was right and necessary.
But it’s just my opinion. I don’t want to offend anyone with that nor stop them from paying their respect to the dead. I just would like to avoid it.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
That’s exactly the point.
These young men were told that invaders were coming. To hurt the kingdom.
That they must defend. They must protect their mothers, brothers, sisters and country.
They must be brave and face the incoming enemy.
They thought they were doing the right thing.
They were slaughtered. They’re dead. Their family grieved. They built memorials.
They didn’t go to murder. In their hearts, they were protecting their families. It’s worth studying some history on this. From a soldiers perspective. From a mother’s perspective.