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I suppose, in this day and age, the old 'sign up and fight/die for your country' mantra would not work the way it did during WWI and WWII, when many brave young men and women left home to defend their countries, but for many people these days, war arrives on their doorstep in an instant, when an aggressive force or neighbour seek to destroy and wipe them out. On those occasions, the choice is wrestled from your grip, as the ONLY option is fight back to protect your land/family, or die. But if YOUR country declared itself at war with an opposing force, would YOU Join Up to fight and serve? My stock answer, in previous conversations, has been 'I'll be standing right behind the sons of the politicians and royals and elite...LITERALLY
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Haha. This thread is YOUR fault, Jim, after I read old Hemmo's quotes about war in your ongoing thread (which has run for as long as MANY wars have, down the years).
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Oooh not political in the slightest mcGann. I take it you have finished wiping all the handrails and lift buttons with wet wipes on your corona lines cruise ship?
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Feb 5, 2020 - 8:25 AM
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Octoberman
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This is my serious face for a moment. When my son enlisted 5 years ago, he learned that one of the first things they ask in the process is, "Could you kill?" I presume that if one answers in the negative, they would find a reason to decline your application. But if you answer "yes", the followup question was, "Could you kill on command?". I guess in the larger sense, that question is meant to discern which people could be trained to see the enemy as something less than human. If you could learn to regard another living person as no more than a bug, then there's no problem squishing them. I don't know if I could do that--but if survival instincts are put on the line, I think no one could say for sure what they would do until it came to that point. If my family is threatened, that's one thing--the parental instinct takes over. But to be asked to fight for your country? That's a harder thing to wrap your head around.
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Thanks Oct. That was at the root of my question. Fighting for your country is almost 'old hat' now, if you're just lining yourself up behind someone's/other/thing's agenda. But an invasion, descended upon YOUR doorstep, in a FIGHT or FLIGHT situation, takes us back down to our old/primal instincts, I would guess.
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Hey Bill, this thread ain't political at all, as long as we don't allow it to go there. And RETURN TO NEVERLAND DOES contain Yoda's Theme, but I still like it Yours Sincerely, Tink xx
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Feb 5, 2020 - 8:42 AM
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Thor
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Military service is obligatory for all young males in Norway (and, since 2015, all females....although I'm not quite sure how the mechanics work here), unless you have health or pacifist reasons. I was a corporal in the army myself, back in '98, and when I was discharged, I had expected multiple call-backs in the years to come, for various military exercises and such. Fortunately, none ever came, and now I'm too old and fat and lazy to be of any kind of use to the army. However, should it be necessary, I'm willing to don the green once again -- useless or not.
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