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 2 months ago by Worthess@discuss.online to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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jewbacca117@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 months ago
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Worthess@discuss.online 2 months ago
On a scale of how Ignorant are you…
3abas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dude, your post is barely coherent, why so aggressive?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Geez, can’t nobody have any fun any more?
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
There has never been a time where soldiers were fighting for freedom. They fight for their master.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months ago
Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Case in point: Taliban vs USA
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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?
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Worthess@discuss.online 2 months ago
Interesting…
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months ago
What?
HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
That not how any of that works.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 months ago
+1 actually a shower thought
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Interesting myopic & binary definitions.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tell me you’ve never studied history without telling me you’ve never stufied history.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Myopic indeed, you know nothing about being a soldier. Go play GI Joe somewhere else. Pathetic loser.