Would you join the military if your country was under threat of invasion?

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As the title states, no forming your own militias, the actual military.

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HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

That's a very sensitive issue for me and have tortured myself many times thinking about it. On one hand I'm opposed to war completely because the ordinary people are always the ones to lose something, while the powerful ones will not be harmed at all. But on the other hand, when you have soldiers one step away from your home, isn't it kinda instinctive to do whatever's in your power to protect it?
I think I'd just become a paramedic, I'd feel at peace with myself like that.

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

@HannibalAteMeOut This is a good answer!!

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@JaggedLittlePill thank you!

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@HannibalAteMeOut Very sensible of you. There is ways to give back without torturing yourself.

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@SW-User I'll always try to balance any situation as much as I can, I cannot stand anything extreme.

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@HannibalAteMeOut Be careful with that, though. Someone I work with is a volunteer firefighter, who also went to war (Iraq, first gulf war) he does have some attributes of PTSD.

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

@HannibalAteMeOut It is a good thought process. I was trying to imagine myself in combat...and while I like to think I am tough that would probably scar me for life.

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@SW-User when I was a kid it was my dream to go to some country which is at war and help the innocent people there. Now growing up I don't think I'll ever have the courage to do it.

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@JaggedLittlePill me too, especially if you have children you just cannot risk that. Children need their parents more than they need their country. I think I would flee if I had such responsibility.

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@HannibalAteMeOut Being honest, I don't think that says anything about your courage. When I was much younger, I like photography and good at it (haven't expressed this to you)... I thought of using that talent in news, sharing, hoping maybe I could maybe depict something ... but I lost someone during that time in my life dear to me, and I don't think I can revisit that idea because I understand now what that loss would be if I wasnt there for a family member. That's just me though

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@SW-User I can totally understand that, sometimes you just cannot sacrifice some things. Whatever the cause.

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

I just realized there is someone else on this thread I cannot see. 😂

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@HannibalAteMeOut It's more than that.. but yes, that's a large part. I think you're a smart woman and you get to choose what you do.

JimboUk · 31-35, M

@HannibalAteMeOut @SW-User I have one for you two, self-preservation?

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

@JaggedLittlePill it's @chelseahotel 😄
Self-preservation is surely above anything else for me. @JimboUk

JimboUk · 31-35, M

@HannibalAteMeOut It makes no sense to want to stop another person missing someone they love, using that as a motativion not to go to war. Yet self-preservation not being important...