(November 9, 2014 at 7:58 pm)Alice Wrote:(November 9, 2014 at 7:25 pm)Chas Wrote: Stupid statement is stupid.
These soldiers were murdered.
And it is a soldier's duty to risk his life in service to his country.
Simple statement is simple.
All dead soldiers are murdered, or die in accidents, or die to old age. In all regards: they die... and duty demands they die for their country. They are bound to this duty until the state, or the self, decrees that they are no longer soldiers.
Soldiers are not duty-bound to 'risk' anything... only to obey. It is their moral responsibility (a different type of duty), to die in the stead of those they would protect. A dead soldier has fulfilled this duty. A soldier that is not yet dead, has yet to fulfill this duty. But die they will... for die they must. They will die in service... or they will not be soldiers when they die.
Nope, still stupid. Soldiers are not murdered in battle. Those soldiers were not in battle, they were murdered by assholes.
Your statement that soldiers are duty-bound to die for their country shows a gross misunderstanding of duty.
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