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Re: We'll take in your poor, your homeless, your oppressed...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:35:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz wrote:
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> > I don't want to encourage people to take the military free ride
> > to education if they aren't willing to be shot at.
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> Yeah.
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> You know, this whole topic would be easier if one of two things would happen:
> either privatize the armed services -- eliminating any need to deal with this
> kind of situation any differently than any other contractual obligation, or
> socialize education -- eliminating any need for poor people to put their lives
> on the line in order to get the shot at education that we all* took for granted.
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> Chris
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> * Well, maybe not all of us, but I get the idea that most of us fit the bill.
Interesting comments by you and Frank. I have a reaction on a couple of
different levels. One, as a soldier, I sure as heck wouldn't want those guys
forced into guarding my back. Two, at some point, people as individuals must
question their orders ("shoot that lot of prisoners over there", "torture that
guy", "Gas those guys who look different"). You have to know that being in the
military involves killing people, but at some point you have to draw the line.
However, if I was a volunteer soldier I would not have drawn it where these guys
did. Still, I would rather see Canada accept them.
-->Bruce<--
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