We never call people who join the military to kill people insane

[NNN0LHI]

We call them heroes.

Ever think about that?

Don

[petronius]

1. If someone was motivated to join the military "to kill people," I will call them unbalanced

And I bet military people will call them that as well...

[femmocrat]

2. Do you think that is their purpose for joining?

Really?

[Zalatix]

4. No, but they know it's part of the job description.

ESPECIALLY in times of conflict, like right now.

And yes, a lot of soldiers do join, in times of conflict, looking for someone to shoot.

That is psychopathic.

[leveymg]

3. Who is we?

Yes, the thought has occurred to some of us.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. What percentage of the people joining the military are doing it for that reason?

Note that the psych evals are supposed to keep out those who joined for that reason

[cbrer]

6. I call bullshit on this.

Although there is a social tendency to collectively refer to members of the military as heroes, (esp. during a protracted conflict), I have personally witnessed soldiers being forced into psych. eval.s as well as removed from active, front line duty.

And the great majority of people who join the military aren't there to kill. Can you present any studious or statistical data that contains information about the percentage of "insane" people there are in the military?

I'm not putting this out there as a function of the majority, and the discussion of military members as "heroes" is a worthy one, but your blanket statement isn't accurate.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. oh, please.

get real.

[Llewlladdwr]

8. Do you know anything about the Military? NT

[IndyJones]

9. People join the military for many reasons. Do you have statistics showing there are individuals who

join for the sole purpose of killing other people? I hope you're not trying to say that everyone who joins the military joins because they want to kill?

[Lint Head]

10. The purpose of a military is to defend the country and wage war. Soldiers are trained to kill.

Some soldiers are trained to support the ones who kill. Some people join the military for economic reasons. As Mike Malloy and Thom Hartman say it is also a social welfare system because some join for the benefits. The purpose of the military is not to plant flowers and put on a social function for the neighbors. Just ask the weapons manufacturers if their produces are for hunting animals and target practice.

[Iggo]

11. Yes, we do.

[tinymontgomery]

12. The only person I knew who joined to kill was

The only person I knew who joined to kill was this guy.

[Nye Bevan]

13. I've never met anyone who "joined the military to kill people".

Have you?

[MotherPetrie]

14. Maybe you don't - I regularly call them BSC.

He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame.

Of course now it's she as well. I think women are especially out of their minds to join the military.

I despise and no, I do NOT support the troops.

They chose their beds. Let them lie in them.

Fools.

[cliffordu]

22. Bless your little heart!

I hope you enjoy your stay at DU!

[11 Bravo]

15. I spent the better part of 12 months in a combat zone, and I never met ANYONE ...

who joined up because they enjoyed killing people.

[braddy]

16. The fact is that wanting to KILL is what really gets you sent to the group W bench.

[WillowTree]

17. Let me guess. You were never in the military yourself.......right?

[MrSlayer]

18. The name's Francis Sawyer but everyone calls me psycho.

Any of you call me Francis……and I'll kill you.

And I don't like anybody touching my stuff. So keep your meat hooks off.

Any of you guys touch my stuff……and I'll kill you.

And I don't like anybody touching me. So if any of you…homos…touch me.……and I'll kill you.



All I know is I finally get to kill somebody.

[flvegan]

19. How fucking dare you.

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. Nnnnnnnope.

[PavePusher]

21. You seem to have been here a long time.....

so I find it difficult to believe no-one has told you that you need to unfuck yourself prior to this, but if it is truely the case, let me be the first.

Please become geo-spatially challenged and attempt to de-fornicate your anatomy tout de fucking suite.

[cliffordu]

23. No, but I wish they'd reinstate the draft so

every smarmy halfwit could go see for themselves how realistic your bogus posit really is.

Ya know, we can all learn soooo much from a little personal research.

[Skidmore]

24. When my son was a teenager, he started talking about joining

the military and actually talked to a couple of recruiters from different branches. I sat him down and had a heart-to-heart with him. I made it clear that I would support him no matter what but he needed to think really hard about the fact that taking on a commitment like that had a dark side of agreeing to kill others on command. We talked a long time that night and I left him to consider what he wanted asking him to give thought to the act of taking someone else's life and how he would feel about doing so himself. I don't know whether it was attributable to that conversation or not, but a couple of months later he told me that he had decided not to join but had picked an area of study to pursue at the university.

I know my son and for all of the macho strutting he did as a young man, I never have believed he would intentionally hurt someone.