Reply #17: Soldiers sign up to murder

[tomorrowsashes]

When a soldier signs up for the army, they are signing up to murder innocent people, and be shot at. Ignorance is the best case to be made for them. If they truly considered what they were getting into, and still went along with it, they are not by my standards good people.

I don't think that Tillman was a bad person, though, and am sorry that he died. I am, however less sorry for him than an innocent person who is killed, and think that he was seriously misguided. He is no hero, nor is he a monster.

I think that all violence, particularily state-sponsered war is wrong, but I do acknowledge that there are some situations in which the alternative is worse. I do not believe that a war, at least the type that was carried out, was necessary in Afghanistan.