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Kada
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9692759 - 01/28/09 01:43 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I didn't support it, and i don't now. I joined right before it started, and thank god i didn't get sent over there. I wouldn't ask anyone to support me, i knew why i joined, i knew the risks. I realized when i was in, no matter what order i followed, it was me doing the things i did.
How am i a hypocrite? I don't get your argument. I joined in 01', and got the fuck out of there in 04'. I consider myself partially responsible for the shit that has happened just because i was apart of it, even tho i never left the US.
Niteowl, i rarely ever agree with you, and right now I'm pretty sure your screaming at me with your head in the sand. You can have your opinion, but i do not agree.
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Cameron
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Kada]
#9692765 - 01/28/09 01:45 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Oh, OK. I agree, then: drafted soldiers deserve more respect than voluntary soldiers, for sure.
Still, I would dodge the draft and skip country before I surrendered myself to the mindless machine of the military.
I can see why many wouldn't be prepared to 'desert' their country, but I don't think I could live with myself after fighting such a blatantly unjust war. But then, I'm young and idealistic. That will change with time.
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niteowl
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Kada]
#9692783 - 01/28/09 01:50 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Blaming the troops for the war is like getting mad at cops because of the war on drugs
The cops didn't make the laws, they just enforce them
Troops don't declare war they just follow orders.
Since you were in the military and don't support the troops it makes you a hypocrite, plain and simple
The majority of the people in the military today were in the military before 9-11
I can assure you that very few of them want to be at war they are there because it is their job, just like it was your job.
i have no love for the politicians that started this war but hold no anger towards the troops that got caught up in it.
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Kada
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
#9692788 - 01/28/09 01:53 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's all circumstantial. If i was drafted now, my ass would be dodging that shit. If we were being invaded, or doing things for honorable reasons, then i would go along with it. I would sign up if anyone's freedom was actually on the line. Now tho, this crap is completly stupid.
-------------------- ~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper.
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Cameron
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9692799 - 01/28/09 01:59 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can assure you that very few of them want to be at war
If every soldier who disagreed with the war refused to fight, would the war still be possible?
If every policeman who disagreed with the war on drugs refused to arrest pot-smokers and the like, would there still be a war on drugs?
You're not getting it. They make it possible by doing their jobs. There is always the option of quitting. They can say 'no,' but they choose not to.
(And I know it's more complicated than that in the military; but no matter what anyone says, soldiers' superior officers can not pull the trigger for them. It's their choice.)
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Kada
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9692800 - 01/28/09 02:00 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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niteowl said: Blaming the troops for the war is like getting mad at cops because of the war on drugs
The cops didn't make the laws, they just enforce them
Troops don't declare war they just follow orders.
Since you were in the military and don't support the troops it makes you a hypocrite, plain and simple
The majority of the people in the military today were in the military before 9-11
I can assure you that very few of them want to be at war they are there because it is their job, just like it was your job.
i have no love for the politicians that started this war but hold no anger towards the troops that got caught up in it.
I do blame the cops. They took the job, they are responsible for the things they do and enforce. You can't be morally free of guilt when you participate in the problem. Whoever thinks like that is a VERY dangerous person.
If i demanded support from anyone in the past, or a thank you for serving, then i would be a hypocrite. I already stated i feel like a jackass for even being in the military, and left asap. I joined before i cared to look at the politics, i was looking for money and a job. I wouldn't support me if i was the general public. Just like i don't support others for joining just for a job now. Where am i being a hypocrite? I just say i don't support the troops. this war is stupid, and i would be a hypocrite if i joined now knowing what this stupid war was all about. All the people that joined before the war has started already had their chance to get out, or not sign up.
-------------------- ~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper.
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niteowl
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Kada]
#9692807 - 01/28/09 02:02 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Kada
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9692814 - 01/28/09 02:05 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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If thats where your are ending with your arguments, then i don't even know why i was responding to you.
-------------------- ~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper.
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Cameron
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9692816 - 01/28/09 02:05 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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How old are you?
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niteowl
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
#9692824 - 01/28/09 02:08 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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niteowl
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Kada]
#9692826 - 01/28/09 02:09 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Kada said: If thats where your are ending with your arguments, then i don't even know why i was responding to you.
whats the point in continuing this discussion?
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Cameron
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9692837 - 01/28/09 02:11 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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So you're one of those people who get more stubborn and less reasonable with age. Good to know for future discussions.
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niteowl
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
#9692841 - 01/28/09 02:12 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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How is it reasonable to blame a soldier for a war, a politician started
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Cameron
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9692848 - 01/28/09 02:16 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Read the last few pages with a sharp eye, consider carefully, and sleep on it. Please.
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LayYouIn
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: niteowl]
#9696731 - 01/28/09 08:22 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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he does have a point...kindof...
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Kada said: You can't participate in something for one reason (money/job), and not be responsible for the things you do. It's like you telling me that a hired hitman has no moral guilt, because it's not your problem people want other people killed. So i guess it's ok, because you needed a job.
Would you voluntarily take a job that would force you to do bad deeds in the name of it's own self interest? The military is not defending the country, they are invading another out of the interests of the powerful. People that join it just to have a job, or for money, or to just go to war are the hand that does these things.
except that maybe most of the US military thinks that the US government is completely moral in their actions. would that make an ignorant person guilty?
also, i read this quote a long time ago and it stuck with me well, but i couldn't remember where i read it at. for some reason i also read your quotes...
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -Buddha
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tpihkal said: I've been fortunate enough that all of my coworkers have learned well enough english to understand them.
i haven't, but it really wasn't that bad. i worked fast food for 2 1/2 years back in high school and i worked with many mexicans that couldn't speak english. someone said it wasn't even legal, but i dunno. it wasn't really that bad though, because i put myself in their shoes and figured that i would have came to this country if i was born in mexico. can you really blame them?
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4ohdmt said: And Jesus didn't offer to die for me, He already did.
And what do Jesus, murderous American soldiers, and dislike of foreign languages have in common anyways?
didn't he offer to die before he died?
you're right, they have nothing in common...
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
#9696754 - 01/28/09 08:26 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cameron said: Difficult business is probably better than no business.
Plus, 75% is not 100%, like your Japanese example: a majority of immigrants know enough English to communicate decently; and they all know enough to survive, obviously.
Please take a trip to south florida.
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hpi
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Newbie]
#9696781 - 01/28/09 08:34 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Religious believers should be killed period.
Christians especially. Arrogant fucks.
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: hpi]
#9696795 - 01/28/09 08:36 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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blewmeanie
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: hpi]
#9696841 - 01/28/09 08:43 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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hpi said: Religious believers should be killed period.
Christians especially. Arrogant fucks.
Yeah, arrogant people suck
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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: hpi]
#9696850 - 01/28/09 08:45 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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hpi said: Religious believers should be killed period.
Christians especially. Arrogant fucks.
lol
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