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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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This post screams of insecurity and sadness on the part of OP.
I think OP romanticizes the idea of being a soldier like a Hollywood actor.
OP has never served.
There has never been a time where soldiers were fighting for freedom. They fight for their master.
That's a very cynical view. Their country is their master, if they got invaded, like Ukraine do, then them fighting for their master(or country, if you will) is fighting for freedom.
Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn't automatically make it a "fight for freedom". Case in point: Taliban vs USA
Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn't automatically make it a "fight for freedom".
Uhh no shit, nuance is important.
You don't think the Taliban were fighting for their freedom?
What were they fighting for then?
Fighting for power first and foremost, but I guess you could go and say it was for the "freedom to rule"
I mean, there are soldiers fighting for their countries' safety today! They're just not the ones thousands of kilometres away from home (they might be piloting drones on the other side of the world, I guess, lol), of course.
Maybe not in our lifetime, but you're really going to say ww2 wasn't to stop evil? What about the civil war?
ww2 wasn’t to stop evil?
It wasn't, thinking so is a very absurd reduction of many different interests at play over 3 fronts (Africa, Europe, Asia)
What about the civil war?
Which one? Afghan, Lybian, Syrian, Iraqi, Rwandan, Spanish?
This guy is defending nazis and slavery
What do you consider a soldier to be? Because I have a feeling you are using a very narrow definition that excludes some of the examples I would make.
What?
That not how any of that works.
When you're a soldier you don't really have agency over the morality of what you do, aside from being technically allowed to protest against committing war crimes.
So no.
You just generally hope the government of the military you're serving is makes the moral call.
What you're thinking of is a violent psychotic vigilante.
+1 actually a shower thought
Naw man as a soldier you will be told to do your tiny part of a tiny task. No kidding that part may just be, take that water tank over there and wait until told what to do.
If you're one of those brave dudes trying to hit aircraft with old rocket launchers while sprinting in your flipflops, you're almost certainly putting down evil, sure.