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 I'm David. 20. I'm originally from New York. I have spent a few years of my life in New Jersey and a few in Pennsylvania, but now I live in the greatest city in the country, Charleston, South Carolina, with my wonderful girlfriend. I'm a full time Psychology student. A little bit of an introvert, a questioner, and I'm grateful for everything I'm lucky enough to experience. theme by Conkers |
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I appreciate the fact that they are risking their lives to defend what they think is right, but they’re fighting for a facist government that’s responsible for the deaths of millions upon millions of people, and they say it’s in the name of freedom, when our rights are being stripped away to the bone each and every day. And they justify the slaughter of innocent people, men, women and children alike, in the name of our country. I’m sorry, but I don’t respect you more because you were gullible enough to sign your life and all your rights away to be owned by the government and used as a pawn in the sick, twisted war that will never end. You CHOSE to sign up and sign your rights away, you CHOSE to fight. And just because you’re in the military, doesn’t make you stronger, smarter, or more of a patriot than me. I’m a patriot because I didn’t leave my family behind, I chose to stay and defend my home on my own turf, I didn’t sign up to fight someone else’s bullshit war, I chose to stay and protect my family and fellow man, so in my eyes, that makes me more of a patriot. The military shouldn’t receive discounts on everything everywhere, especially if they ask for it. If you come into the restaurant I work at, dressed in uniform, and you are polite, courteous and nice, I will give you the discount, but if you ask for it, because you expect different treatment because you chose to fight someone else’s war, no I’m not okay with that. And the military always treat civilians like they’re above them, like the civilians should clear the fucking street for them and give up their own seat and get on their knees so they could be used as a foot stool. No, I don’t respect you, at all, because you signed up to take the lives of innocent people if your commanding officer gave you the order. No, I don’t respect you for not being intelligent enough to research the corruption in your own government before you go and fight for it a few thousand miles away. I don’t. And I get judged by this all the time, and people say I’m ungrateful for what I have and the life I live that they are trying to protect. But they’re wrong, and they’re just as ignorant as the soldiers.
there is such a lack of logic in this entire thing
AND it said “ignorant”
so overall this post is complete and utter bullshit
This and that huge bigoted rant both make me sick.Whether you support the war or not, I couldn’t give a single flying fuck. Who doesn’t think that America is occupying some very controversial places?
You want to talk about ignorant? If you can’t have sympathy for somebody who is voluntarily risking their life every day, you should reconsider your moral values. How can anybody claim to be so progressive and forward in their beliefs but have sympathy for every innocent [and not innocent] Middle Eastern person killed, yet have no sympathy for a single American soldier lost?
I don’t agree with the conditions of this war, and most people don’t. But there’s no greater ignorance here than failing to look at these conflicts at a micro-level. We’re in a war that was supposed to be over years ago (thank you, Mr. President) and we’re all weary by now. We want the killing to stop, but why in God’s name are people attacking our American soldiers for what our government is failing to do? I think that’s worth considering before anybody goes slinging around the word “Ignorant.”
For every life lost, a friend loses a friend, a mother and father lose a son, and most likely a young child loses a parent. But most of all, a man or woman loses his or her own life. American or not, death doesn’t discriminate, and if you cannot feel the gravity of a human life lost, regardless of the conditions and regardless of the person’s ethnicity or home country, frankly that just terrifies me.
A soldier in a questionable war is still a respectable and brave person. Calling him a murderer and demeaning him for violating an invisible moral code is only going to weaken any stability that your country has left.
And that’s why those who have a problem with the war, need to fight the war, not the soldiers. Don’t be an idiot, and direct your discontent the proper way.
God bless this mess of a country, and if you can’t ache for your fellow man and respect the weight of any human life, you’re just as bad as anybody you point your finger at.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxyomr4OhY1qj7gpko1_500.png)
This and that huge bigoted rant both make me sick. You want to talk about ignorant? If you can’t have sympathy for somebody who is voluntarily risking their life every day, you should reconsider your moral values. How can anybody claim to be so progressive and forward in their beliefs but have sympathy for every innocent [and not innocent] Middle Eastern person killed, yet have no sympathy for a single American soldier lost? I don’t agree with the conditions of this war, and most people don’t. But there’s no greater ignorance here than failing to look at these conflicts at a micro-level. We’re in a war that was supposed to be over years ago (thank you, Mr. President) and we’re all weary by now. We want the killing to stop, but why in God’s name are people attacking our American soldiers for what our government is failing to do? I think that’s worth considering before anybody goes slinging around the word “Ignorant.” For every life lost, a friend loses a friend, a mother and father lose a son, and most likely a young child loses a parent. But most of all, a man or woman loses his or her own life. American or not, death doesn’t discriminate, and if you cannot feel the gravity of a human life lost, regardless of the conditions and regardless of the person’s ethnicity or home country, frankly that just terrifies me. A soldier in a questionable war is still a respectable and brave person. Calling him a murderer and demeaning him for violating an invisible moral code is only going to weaken any stability that your country has left. And that’s why those who have a problem with the war, need to fight the war, not the soldiers. Don’t be an idiot, and direct your discontent the proper way. God bless this mess of a country, and if you can’t ache for your fellow man and respect the weight of any human life, you’re just as bad as anybody you point your finger at. (Source: the-unpopular-opinions) 272 notes:
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