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If you have ever been in any military branch, you deal with dumb questions like this every day.
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lol I was thinking the same thing
Then she should try calling him a mercenary instead!
Not implying anything.
No idea what you’re implying, so, I’m going to ignore you and expand upon my initial comment: This could be better explained by a head doctor, not a jarhead. It’s rather impressive that bronies include both. C:
@SemPBron3
Why are you still going on about impolite questions to military personnel? Didn’t I make it clear that I was remarking purely on SemPBron3’s argumentation?
@AlsoSprachOdin
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough.
Somepony else could explain it to him, I suppose. ^_^;
Because you’ll look like a cock sucker. Wanna look like a cock sucker go ahead. Not sure why I have to explain this, seems like basic social graces.
So, you’ve given up trying to make a rational argument? Not very convincing.
It’s not that I particularly feel like asking soldiers how many people they’ve killed. It’s just that saying “because I say so” is shit, in any context.
He’s gonna reply that soldiers mostly just patrol and stuff not involving combat.
oh derp didn’t realize I repeat myself there. And for some reason it changed the number so it seems like im using a smurf account. Sorry about that.
The difference is also in understanding the attitude. When a cop has to fire their gun it means they have failed or at least it’s tragic happenstance. If a surgeon kills it’s always a tragedy.
Soldiers are congratulated on a job well done in bringing down an enemy.
This is a stark contrast.
Im not saying soldiers are bad people. Certainly many do a good job of keeping stormy regions from falling into chaos and with the threat of their guns ensure others can live.
But the question is a sensible one because the act of killing is done more apersonally.
Most of all because they signed up willingly despite knowing that killing people is part of their goal when it’s neither for a cop or a surgeon.
A cop has to be able to defend why he’s upholding the law as must a surgeon be able to defend why he’d save bad people with the good ones.
Think of it this way: would you ask a surgeon if anybody died while he was operating on them? Would you ask a cop if he’d ever had to shoot somebody?
Of course in reality that’s mostly a way to prepare soldiers for the eventuality that it does happen when the great majority will neither see killing nor combat.
The actual mission is more about controlling areas and eliminating the enemys capacity and will to fight back , not killing every enemy.
But it still stands to reason one would ask about it as it’s something that is way outside of what civilians experience. Morbid curiosity aside it’s as much about wanting to understand how someone would cope with something like that.
Is it respectless? Maybe. But it’s not the civilian who chose to take a job that has ‘sometimes killing’ in it’s job description. Cops arrest, surgeons cut and soldiers? Sometimes they kill.
This is the best response.
People ask my friends this all the time it is fucking disrespectful.
Why? Aren’t they?
Not even fictionally?
I haven’t.
Have you ever killed anyone?
I might as well ask.
Killing someone is a traumatic event that most people do not want to relive. If you’ve killed someone you don’t want some retarded civilian bringing back those memories with stupid ass questions like this. It’s like saying “Oh, you survived that earthquake in Nepal, did all of your family die?”
And even beyond that, it’s just not something you talk about in polite conversation.
It goes to my comment below. Think of it like this: would you walk up to a random woman and ask her if she’s ever had an abortion? No, because despite the fact that she is a woman, thus is one of the few people most likely to have an abortion, she probably hasn’t. And if she has had one, it was most likely a very personal and traumatic experience, and she probably doesn’t want to talk about it even to people close to her, let alone a random stranger.
And I’ll keep being a problem until someone explains why…
You are the problem then…