(June 7, 2019 at 7:28 am)tackattack Wrote: Back to the thread,
I think it’s ridiculous She’ll to want it both ways. You can’t have a “hail the hero” celebration and not expect shame for cowards.
You 100% can. We hail overachievers without sending the kids who got Fs to jail for it. We hand out the Nobel Prize to outstanding people (for the most part), but we don't hand out a "fuck you" award to people who've contributed nothing to humanity. Cowardice is not shameful. It's just a reaction that some people have. It's unfortunately, but it's not fair to shame him.
Quote:Until girls stop haunting the bad boys while growing up and we as a society stop aggrandizing state sanctioned mass murder (read war) then hero’s should win and scaredy cats should be more like heroes, imo
Society rewarding this kind of behavior doesn't mean that's what's right, so I refer you back to my earlier posts.
Listen, I married the "war hero." He was an asshole of the highest order, and he used his service as an excuse to be an abusive prick. Then, I married a pacifist, and I can say with a certainty which behavior we should be rewarding. I'm not a pacifist, but I also try very hard not criticize it.