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In reply to the discussion: The problem of our military worshipping culture [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I imagine there are a handful who greatly respect, even admire the military. I imagine also there are a few who believe there is no use for the military, and it should not exist regardless of any potential consequences.
However, I think that if we attribute (or even infer) "worship" or "awe", or any other biased adjective to someone in place of actual sentiment, we are not really advancing an argument as much as we are merely advancing our own perceptions (the academic v. the visceral).
And, as far as I've read on the threads in questions, critics of the existence of the U.S. military could find no objective nor absolute Bad Thing in and of itself about guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier, grudgingly admitting to its (at worst) benign nature, and whose arguments (as such) were then little more than "this tradition is stupid..."
However, I imagine one could argue that *all* benign traditions are stupid-- from guarding the tomb (called by some as "silly", to getting a tattoo (called by others as "body mutilation" , but I certainly hope that if we are grading traditions wholly on their own merit, we also include those traditions we ourselves take part when, regardless of whether we are consciously aware of that participation or not.