There are like a dozen men of military age suggesting that they should be able to send other men of military age to die in a war. And that it’s wrong that they be judged for wanting to send other men to take risks that they can’t be bothered to make.
We have freedom of speech, you’re free to say that. You’re free to suggest that others risk their lives and livelihood to protect your freedom while you sit on the couch eating bonbons and being the assistant regional manager of whatever.
But the rest of us are also free to judge that, if you want others to make existential sacrifices that you won’t do, you’re a garbage person and should be forced to eat your own asshole as dinner from this day until your last day.
Carry on. I won’t be following responses to this because fuck you, you shit-eating cowards.
Suppose someone is a coward, in the most pejorative sense of the word. Not merely pacifistic, but utterly and irredeemably chickenshit. And that person examined the situation at Pearl Harbor and determined, after much thought, that military action was the only reasonable response.
It’s not like you bothered to actually read the posts that you did respond to in that thread, but rather, just rushed to judgment about them without bothering to actually follow them.
Rather be a shit eating coward than one that fires on friendlies because he was too lazy to tell friend from foe.
The thread is not about right or wrong – someone might be 100% correct about a proposed military action, yet still be a coward. It’s possible to be brave and wrong, cowardly and right, or any other combination. I think some shaming might make some folks rethink a relatively blind and casual approach to making war. Right now, our society and culture tends to see war as no big deal. This is a big problem, IMO, and that thread is about one possible way that might help change that.
Those with the power to choose war often don’t choose to personally sacrifice for it. You believe this is some revelation? If only others knew! If only awareness was raised!
I agree with most of this message board about most things, but god almighty can it be a sniveling self-absorbed group of ineffectual whiners sometimes.
I followed some of that thread. What I wanted to post there but didn’t is this:
You don’t need to be of military age. You don’t need to be able to pass the induction physical. If you really support this war, then volunteer your time to support those who will be required to fight it. Volunteer to support the families of those who die in it.
Give a few hours a week volunteering at your local VA hospital. Drive vets to their doctor appointments. Work with local charities that renovate homes to be wheelchair-accessible for vets. Cut the grass, shovel the snow, rake the leaves of the home of a war widow.
There are hundreds of things to do to support. Giving money is good, but giving time is better. Put your free time where your mouth is.