- It's Not Rude: These Portraits Of Wounded Vets Are Meant To Be Stared At
I have no sympathy for soldiers and I don't understand why people expect me to care about their fate. These are men whose job is to kill people. They would kill you if they were ordered to, think about that for a moment please. They're not fighting for your freedom, they don't even care about you. If you're a man or even a 14-year-old boy they automatically see you as a potential threat and thus a target. I don't feel sorry for these men, they decided to go to war and sell their soul for some cash. They brought death and destruction wherever they went and that's what they are to me, willful tools of destruction. Am I really supposed to feel sorry for them because they're now suffering from the consequences of their own terrible choices? I feel sorry for their victims, for the civilians they brutalised. Can we stop pretending that a soldier is some kind of brave warrior who protects the weak and fights evil and deserves our admiration and support?
IMO most of them aren't men, they are children in men's bodies. Also, they are disproportionately poor and often join for socioeconomic reasons. That's part of why I feel an empathy for them. I agree that we whitewash much of war out of political necessity, but I would be hesitant to blame the fodder in general. IMO you could say similar things about those that perpetrate gang violence. I just shared some relavent thoughts here:
As a matter of fact, I don't condone gang violence. I don't come from a rich family myself, my grandparents were born in poverty and worked their ass off to build a better future for themselves and their children (and grandchildren). You can be poor and still be a decent person, nobody can force you to turn into a murderer if you don't want to. I don't understand why you think of these grown men as children. I can't even disagree with that because I literally have no idea why someone would think that.