(November 11, 2011 at 9:27 pm)xxxtobymac Wrote:(November 11, 2011 at 9:18 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: This is a conflict I have to face myself. Next year I will be 17, the minimum age requirement for joining the army. I plan on joining because the army will help pay my school expenses as well as set me up with a lifetime of benefits. I want to enjoy the benefits but at the same time I would be supporting a corrupt system.Not to be a downer but what good are those benefits if the odds you come back are against u?
Sometimes needs are not at base with morality.
What are you talking about? Oh, I should have specified I'm joining the reserve forces. Then from there I'll see where I want to take it.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
