RE: Memorial Day; A Good Day to discuss the difference between Soldiers, Warriors, and Thugs
No, no offense.
I just don't think it's realistic.
It reflects a cognitive bias called projection bias, in which we assume that most people think just like us.
You seem like a caring, nice person, and you assume that everybody is like that.
Some people are scumbags who can only help this world by leaving it. It really doesn't matter what kind of socialization is put in place to "stop" this; it is natural in those people. Again, like the "natural born killers", you can increase the number of scumbags through socialization (eg. Detroit), but you can't go beneath the floor limit.
Soldiers and police are the answer to that, even though they usually get subverted by politicians...who themselves are usually scumbags ;>
Since this is a pretty flat rejection of your point, I wanted to let you know it's not intended to insult you.
I understand where you are coming from but,
how do we determine who's a scumbag?
Certainly there are people who can endanger others and this shouldn't be ignored, but I've also known people joining the military because they think they will get respect out of it which is what worries me most. Have you read about the Standford Experiment?
I have read about it, and done a paper on it!
The experiment wasn't really an experiment (details in the posts)...
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Thanks for the courteous response; it's hard to do on those subjects that are important to us.
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