Hope for America!!

[Drich]

Read the story again and click on the links in the story and watch the videos. Those three men were placed in the situation they were in, out of duty, honor, and loyalty not only to their country, but also to their profession the people they worked with and their families. Integrity and honor has men like this put themselves in harms way, not empathy. Are you so foolish to think these three men 'channeled' the feelings of all of europe and it demanded they make a one way trip?
If you do you do not understand/have any idea why people lay their lives down for others. A good man will die for what he believes period. If that same good man believes in his job, and knows the danger going in before he even accepts his job, then he will have made up his mind that he will give it life for what he does for the sake of the job and the safty of those he works with if his job requires it. Soldiers, firefighters, cops, body guards, life guards, really anyone  who has an element of risk associated with their profession. Even nuclear engineers.

Minimalist has a long thread called fucking cops, about what happens when someone has a responsibility to do something, yet lacks the empathy needed to really do it. Duty and honor mean little if someone doesn't care about the people their duty would have them help.

And one could counter by saying if one is not "caring about the people their duty would have them help" then they are without honor. Duty alone is simply going through the motions. A person who is just going through the motions will stop going through the motions when he has to put his life on the line.

There is a reason I paired duty with honor and integrity.