On a scale of 1-10 how high are you right now?
There's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Worthess@discuss.online to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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jewbacca117@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
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Worthess@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
On a scale of how Ignorant are you…
3abas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dude, your post is barely coherent, why so aggressive?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Geez, can’t nobody have any fun any more?
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There has never been a time where soldiers were fighting for freedom. They fight for their master.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s a very cynical view. Their country is their master, if they got invaded, like Ukraine do, then them fighting for their master(or country, if you will) is fighting for freedom.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Case in point: Taliban vs USA
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, there are soldiers fighting for their countries’ safety today! They’re just not the ones thousands of kilometres away from home (they might be piloting drones on the other side of the world, I guess, lol), of course.
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Maybe not in our lifetime, but you’re really going to say ww2 wasn’t to stop evil? What about the civil war?
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
ww2 wasn’t to stop evil?
It wasn’t, thinking so is a very absurd reduction of many different interests at play over 3 fronts (Africa, Europe, Asia)
What about the civil war?
Which one? Afghan, Lybian, Syrian, Iraqi, Rwandan, Spanish?
Worthess@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Interesting…
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This post screams of insecurity and sadness on the part of OP.
I think OP romanticizes the idea of being a soldier like a Hollywood actor.
OP has never served.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What?
HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
That not how any of that works.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
+1 actually a shower thought
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When you’re a soldier you don’t really have agency over the morality of what you do, aside from being technically allowed to protest against committing war crimes.
So no.
You just generally hope the government of the military you’re serving is makes the moral call.
What you’re thinking of is a violent psychotic vigilante.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Naw man as a soldier you will be told to do your tiny part of a tiny task. No kidding that part may just be, take that water tank over there and wait until told what to do.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you’re one of those brave dudes trying to hit aircraft with old rocket launchers while sprinting in your flipflops, you’re almost certainly putting down evil, sure.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, there isn’t. At all. What so ever. A soldier is merely a tool by a state that may or may not (and historically NOT) have good intentions.
A soldier is first and foremost instructed to FOLLOW ORDERS. Not because of some nefarious plot to use people, but because doubt on the battlefield can mean a weakness ripe for exploitation.
A soldier is a TOOL, not a freedom fighter.
Worthess@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Interesting myopic & binary definitions.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell me you’ve never studied history without telling me you’ve never stufied history.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol.
Shoes how little you know.
In the military, shit isn’t up for debate. You do as you’re told. It is very much black and white.
(Well, from some exceptions we don’t need to get to because you’d never reach the level where one has to utilise their own brain.)
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Myopic indeed, you know nothing about being a soldier. Go play GI Joe somewhere else. Pathetic loser.