Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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The majority of soldiers don't enjoy killing, however, as evidenced by the skyrocketing cases of PTSD and the fact that more of them die via suicide than combat. Again, enjoying killing people, regardless of whether you think they deserve it, is the realm of a psychopath. It does not make them "better than the rest of us."This is what I'm going to say about people who say they like killing.
The United States of America needs such people, we all need such people.
The United States of America has taken millions of young men and women and trained them in how to kill other human beings.
Part of that training, especially in the Marines and elite forces, is to get them psyched up so that they enjoy it.
When the shit hits the fan, and America is invaded by a foreign army, it will be the people who like to kill that will do the lion's share of defending the rest of us who don't.
And I would say the same is true about any nation, at any time in history. Every nation needs its warriors.
We honor them, and give them medals, and give them fancy funerals if they die, but basically being a soldier is a raw deal.
For very low pay, we ask soldiers to live in the mud, not always without enough rations, without the basics of sanitation, only to fight an enemy and die or lose an arm or a leg.
What sane man or woman would take up that deal unless he had something special inside him that makes him better than the rest of us?
It makes me sick to my stomach to see people on this forum, or Hollywood celebrities, badmouth Chris Kyle or any man or woman who put it all on the line for our country.
People who badmouth our military are the lowest of low-lifes, and in my opinion, they should be deported as undesirables.