• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I find it utterly deplorable when I see army recruiters at cons. They’re always talking to teenagers who are impressionable and feel bullied. I always walk by and tell the teens to not die for someone else’s stock portfolios

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      okay but when I was a young innocent healthy teenager, I did join the army of my own volition and now they are taking care of me for the rest of my life. Some people want to join the Army. Let people do whatever they want.

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        8 months ago

        Glad it worked out for you. Let’s not force people to risk death, dismemberment, and permanent brain damage just to live an okay life.

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          8 months ago

          I don’t know anybody I served with in the military who experienced any of those things. We all came out completely alive & whole & thriving, The only person I knew in the military who died, he got in a car accident and died while he was on leave.

        • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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          8 months ago

          Just to clarify, Evangelion is basically saying ‘don’t guilt-trip teens into being soldiers, don’t put them under the power of horny adults (however well-meaning), don’t bully them or treat them like lab mice, and definitely don’t cut them off from civilian society and the chance to form normal human friendships’. Seems some people saw all of that and only remembered the cool mechas.