(November 9, 2014 at 8:07 pm)Chas Wrote: Nope, still stupid. Soldiers are not murdered in battle. Those soldiers were not in battle, they were murdered by assholes.
What difference makes it if a man is shot until he is dead in a battlefield, or in a bar, or in a car?
The man is dead, all the same. The man was killed... all the same.
Quote:Your statement that soldiers are duty-bound to die for their country shows a gross misunderstanding of duty.
Or perhaps it shows a deeper understanding of duty than you recognize. Duty without recognition is, after all, very hard to follow. As it is up to every soldier to swear service to their state or to their kings or to their gods... it is only a question of whether they remain soldiers when they die as to whether they have fulfilled their duty as soldiers... or died as civilians.
A soldier is in service, bound to that service to defend against all enemies, domestic or otherwise. Do they die in this service? Then they have died as soldiers, and as soldiers have fulfilled the oath they solemnly swore. Do they not die in this service? Then they have died as free men, as no longer are they soldiers.
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
