RE: The Right of Revolution
August 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2011 at 1:51 pm by Violet.)
(August 19, 2011 at 1:44 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It's just a job Sae. You expect the guy at the McDonalds to question his loyalties too?
Yes.
But I recognize that I expect too much of people... after all: how could they possibly know who they are loyal to and why? That takes thinking, and we surely shouldn't anticipate anyone thinks.
Quote:In any case, soldiers do remove themselves from combat, time to time, or remove themselves from service entirely by gaming the system.
Good. Though that they must game the system to do so is ridiculous with a volunteer military.
Rhythm Wrote:What people volunteer for and what they find themselves doing aren't always the same. In any case, they could just hire contractors couldn't they, if the service (as a whole) refused to fight?
Mercs are always willing to fight (for solid pay). But it doesn't say much of a government if it must use mercenaries to get things done
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
