Why would one choose to be a soldier?

[Catwoman]

Oh come on, someone give me a decent argument, please. Yes I am simple. Yes I care about other people. 'Productivity' means creating more than we need (hello! can someone please do their homework - the industrial revolution caused overproduction hence advertising hence people buying things they don't need hence time and money being spent on SHIT instead of saving lives). Jesus you people are difficult to get through to.

A lot of American's work hard all day? Doing what?!! Is it anything useful? Can you honestly say the world is a better place because of YOU? What do you do?

Originally Posted by lookout123

you will never understand, because you don't want to understand

Well that's possible the most ridiculous thing I've heard. What do you think I'm doing here?

Originally Posted by lookout123

i have yet to meet anyone in the military who says "i want to kill someone as soon as i get a chance."

Well I have, and they DO. They are excited by big guns and loud noises and battlegrounds. Lets not forget these are KIDS. They don't know what they're getting into until their mates brains splatter their armour. It's not bloodlust it's curiosity - but it's stupidity to want to realise this curiosity.

Originally Posted by lookout123

you live in a pipe dream where you think world peace is achievable if only the nasty capitalists would share whatever they create with everyone without regard for profit and military force is pointless because we can all just talk through our disagreements until we all come to a common understanding what is in the best interest of all.

Of course it's a pipe dream. I doubt things will ever change. But what's the point of discussions like these if we can't say what we think is RIGHT. Such fear of peace that leads us to war. We can't settle on sharing and happiness and sameness because it's boring. War is exciting!

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Cures for cancer is what we work on when we're not farming all day. Almost all cures have come in the last 100 years when productivity became important. Almost all cures have come from productive nations even though the VAST majority of humans still live in UNproductive ones.

And then GlaxoSmithKline sell them to developing countries for more than the cost of a year's labour - so most of them don't see these cures anyway. Then they DIE. Does that bother you as much as the mass graves? We can stop it now!