Jan 16th 2012, 20:28:53
How is killing a human an unnatural act? Mammals kill each other all the time. It's illegal. It's immoral. It's looked down upon. Those do not make it inherently unnatural. But you're right - being asked to take a life will change you as a person. I'm not arguing that it doesn't. What I'm saying, and you so conveniently seem to ignore. is that, and I'll try to highlight this as best I can:
***TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS ARE PLACED IN THE SAME STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENT AND ASKED TO PERFORM THE SAME "UNNATURAL" ACTS UNDER THE SAME THREAT OF DEATH FROM THE ENEMY AND THEY DON'T PISS ON DEAD BODIES***
Under normal circumstances I would admonish somebody who writes in all caps like that, but given that I've made this point several times and you've ignored it I can only assume that either you didn't notice it or don't have a valid response for it. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the former.
You absolutely cannot compare removing precious metal from a dead bodies' mouth to urinating on a dead body. The two are nothing alike. One is akin of removing valuables from a person's body. The other has no benefit to you whatsoever. To urinate on a body is an act that cannot be compared to removing gold from a person's mouth.
What freedoms to we lose when an act of terror happens? Perhaps civil freedoms? But those freedoms are taken away by our own governments who use terror as a justification. Millions of airplanes flew over the US without incident. Then 4 of them were taken over. Since, millions more have flown over the US without incident, AND the group/country that funded and planned the original attack have been for all intents and purposes whipped out. Any freedoms that you as an American are missing right now as a result of 9/11 are squarely on the shoulders of your government, and not whatever is left of the crippled Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As for your personal comments, I'm curious how you were able to come to those conclusions. You don't know me. You don't know a damn thing about me. To begin with, I'm Canadian, so no, I don't hide behind your military. Second, nobody hides behind your military because your military is over there, and Americans are over here. The enemy is also over there, and they have no means to getting over here. So what protection is being afforded and to whom is a mystery. I actually happen to know quite a bit about military, courage etc. I come from a long line of servicemen and women back home in Romania. I also happen to know quite a bit about the purpose of a military - to protect a nation's population from external threats; NOT to forwardly extend one nation's policies onto another.