CalvinbalI posted...
I thought it out just fine. I don't at all think that RayDyn or any particular member of the armed services is a "blood thirsty killer." But anyone who joins the armed services has to confront the possibility that they might be charged with attacking and killing other people. They have to live with that decision. Which is a hell of a lot more than can be said than for anyone else responding to this. He actually had to make the decision to put himself in a position where he might have to take another person's life. You all are just taking five seconds to respond to a hypothetical scenario you will never have to actually confront.
...No, you REALLY didn't think this one out any.
How can you say, with 100% certainty, that a member of the armed services is more willing to kill somebody than somebody not in them. By that logic, murderers must all be members of the armed services, since they all agreed to face the possibility of killing somebody, right? Surely, nobody that hasn't joined the armed forces and confronted that possibility could EVER kill somebody!
Oh, wait. That's not right at all.
Besides, as somebody has already brought up, being willing to kill an enemy combatant when forced is very much different from killing somebody that can't fight back and is of no threat to you. And yet you're making the assumption that any member of the armed forces should be more okay with that than anybody that isn't a member. Thus, you are implying that, somehow, they're more likely to be killers.
Do you really, really not see the gaping hole in your logic.
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