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[Closed] Help for Heroes - a moral dilemma

slimjim78 · 2015-08-22T11:23:00Z

I just can't get my head around the term 'heroes'. Am I the only one? It's in my face everywhere I turn, car window stickers, shop collection boxes, bus stop advertising, social media, TV.. My 'problem' is mainly that I'm a pacifist, and I don't believe in any of the 'reasons' that we are at 'war'. I truly believe in helping others that have suffered physical/mental trauma and what these squaddies have gone through is by and large horrific, but I can't get my head around the word 'hero'. The cynic in me says that anyone choosing to take up a profession in the full knowledge that they will be trained to kill people, that's 'kill people', for reasons that are at best - controversial, and at worst, profiting from murder - should probably take a much deeper look inside at their own psyche. I resent being forced by proxy into offering support for these causes. I'm genuinely interested to hear if I've truly got this way wrong or if others see things in a similar perspective?

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dave360

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Rudders says it better than I ever can: http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Tommy.htm

Posted : 25/08/2015 2:20 pm

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