Reply #166: "The military is at base a repugnant enterprise..."

[Llewlladdwr]

So is garbage removal, or waste water treatment. Do you disrespect those who chose to perform those tasks? Does the very sight of them make you sick?

How is a society to survive if it is not willing to protect itself? Unless some of us are willing to take on the burden of fighting and dying in the defense of the whole our society will soon cease to exist. Those who do so deserve our thanks, not slander.

I frankly feel pacifists are the worst sort of free riders on society. I find it repugnant that they are willing to let others go out and do the heavy lifting required for our continued existence as a nation, their willingness to let others suffer the physical, emotional and mental damage they themselves are unwilling to endure. And I find it beautiful and noble that our military protects and defends them just as it does all other citizens.