(June 4, 2012 at 8:51 pm)liam Wrote: That's because soldiers are inherently immoral. If they sign up for killing people, what stretch is there to bullying, discrimination and intolerance?
Damn, if people, including you would see actions as evolutionary and not label based you wouldn't be saying such stupid crap.
It is true that there are humans who have in our entire history of conflict DO get into it just to kill. But you've got to be out of your mind to make such a statement. Otherwise we should be Speaking German and all be Nazis with that logic.
War sucks, but I am damned glad that the west kicked Germany's ass and it is absurd to suggest that every western soldier of the Allies was there just to end someone's life for fun. And I doubt Pat Tilman, an atheist who went to Afghanistan and died via friendly fire, went there thinking "I get to end a life".
War is a product of evolution. And in evolutionary terms loyalty is mostly local, we tend as a species to defend that which we are close to and familiar with.
We even see that in other mammals. A male lion will protect it's own loins but try to kill the young of it's rivals. Just like we as a species protect our own boarders and politics and social clubs and social norms.
