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In reply to the discussion: Why do we buy into the worship of the military? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)They are both individuals, real PEOPLE, who make their own choices and are also manipulated by people who need enlistments. Most have a number of reasons for joining the military. Finding a way not to join the family business right out of high school or to escape a girlfriend become too serious, and to get to travel, to get training and, yes, also to serve their nation as they're taught, are enormously more common than an inhuman willingness to murder for business. And none of them are mindless nothings.
Btw, imo, portraying good sense, awareness of what causes people to join the military, and decency and concern for them as people as "worship" is profoundly dishonest, even if this weren't a liberal-dominated forum, full of people literally incapable of "worshipping" the military.