Poll: would you die for your country?
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Heh I don't live in the country I was born in anymore and I'm just a foreign resident in this one so not super willing to die for either.
Love for your country should not be about throwing your life away but living and trying to make it a better place.
Love for your country should not be about throwing your life away but living and trying to make it a better place.
I completely agree. Ever since the human race made his first fire, we've been killing each other in the name of whatever rock we were born on.Diplodocus462 said:
If we want to move into the future, we must do it as one country...Earth.
We must pledge allegiance to each other, not god, not country, not political ideology. Only then will we be worthy of the title "civilized".
I am a person who will give my money to random people for things I love, will I die for it?
FUCK NO.
reason is simple, government lies to us so much its rather comical in the sad way, I love but also hate the US but its a relationship because the ship can sink.
I live where in the winter it snows up to 2 feet in a single day, in the summer its 95 degree's with 90% humidity, do I love living here?
FUCK NO.
Why live here?
because I feel like it.
FUCK NO.
reason is simple, government lies to us so much its rather comical in the sad way, I love but also hate the US but its a relationship because the ship can sink.
I live where in the winter it snows up to 2 feet in a single day, in the summer its 95 degree's with 90% humidity, do I love living here?
FUCK NO.
Why live here?
because I feel like it.
If dying for my country meant that I saved the lives of millions, I would do it. If it meant keeping oil prices down, fuck your cars, you lazy fuckfaces.
If it meant keeping the streets safe in the face of ever-increasing gang violence, I would do it. If it meant keeping my daughter safe, you'd better believe I'd do it.
I think, if the question was "would you kill for your country" you'd get more Yes votes...
If it meant keeping the streets safe in the face of ever-increasing gang violence, I would do it. If it meant keeping my daughter safe, you'd better believe I'd do it.
I think, if the question was "would you kill for your country" you'd get more Yes votes...
Hell no, General Patton had the right idea "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country." There are more productive ways to help your country : D
I'll give it a shot.Hides His Eyes said:
The word would implies a level of knowledge about the results, but unless you have actually put yourself in a situation with a high likelihood of death for the purpose of protecting/saving your country (whatever death and country mean) the question should actually be "Do you think you should die for your country?". After all, this is a hypothetical about how much we comparatively value our life and country, meaning that for most of us it is about the should, not the would (the should can be known, the would cannot).
How did I do?
OT: I cannot possibly know what I would do, because I've never been in that situation. I can't know if I should, because I don't know what you mean by country (would my death just mean we fly the same flag? Or would my death mean that the entire populace isn't enslaved by an ear-raping monster-alien-thingy-ma-what's-it that takes pleasure in slowly torturing us to death?), and I can't know if I could because you haven't specified the circumstances of my death (Does it require technical or physical skill above my ability? Do I have to speak the foreign language to negotiate my death? Is it a matter of with-holding information in a torture scenario until I die (I don't think I could last long enough to die if someone was torturing me)?)
I cannot possibly answer any aspect of the question.
Ah, but would my country die for me? No, no it wouldn't.
It doesn't care about me and I don't care about it, I'd live somewhere else if I thought for a moment I wouldn't encounter the same BS elsewhere, but that is unlikely.
It doesn't care about me and I don't care about it, I'd live somewhere else if I thought for a moment I wouldn't encounter the same BS elsewhere, but that is unlikely.
I'm an american, and I would go to war for the sole purpose of killing terrorists, because I don't like terrorists and think they should all die, but I wouldn't do it for my country, which I honestly don't like that much. Used to, then these beurocrats in washington fucked it up like there's no tomorrow
Hmm...if Americuh was being invaded, I guess. But I wouldn't be accepted into the military because of a slight asthma problem...
I would drive an ambulance or supply truck or something, sure, as long as my inhaler is within reach. I'd really want to help people, if we were being invaded, because no one would deserve this kind of violence inflicted on them.
And maybe if they give me a gun. If I was about to get captured, I'd take em all down with me.
But to die? To take a bullet for my country on the front lines would be out of the question.
I would drive an ambulance or supply truck or something, sure, as long as my inhaler is within reach. I'd really want to help people, if we were being invaded, because no one would deserve this kind of violence inflicted on them.
And maybe if they give me a gun. If I was about to get captured, I'd take em all down with me.
But to die? To take a bullet for my country on the front lines would be out of the question.
Wouldn't that be like an accident while doing something else rather than specifically related to dying for your country like the op states.DrJapple said:
There are very few circumstances when the death of a person who is not an abuser or some kind of power a better place.
Hell no, to me my country is just the place I live. I like that place well enough, but I wouldn't risk my life for it.
The OP is gonna be pissed when he/she comes back to find we've totally deconstructed the question and left the pieces scattered all over the room. We're a bunch of mischievous semiotic imps.
If my country was actually in danger I would fight to defend it (though I'd probably try not to die). That would be about attempting to save lives though, not about the country itself- why should I feel proud of being born within certain arbitrary lines?
Would I ever participate in any of the wars we are involved in now? No. That isn't dying for your country, that's dying for your government's interests which frankly isn't worth a single life.
You seem to be a little naive, OP. How old are you?
Would I ever participate in any of the wars we are involved in now? No. That isn't dying for your country, that's dying for your government's interests which frankly isn't worth a single life.
You seem to be a little naive, OP. How old are you?
No. If you count my country as the economy and government then HELL. NO. They wouldn't drop a cent to save me.
If you mean my country as in all living in it, then yes. Regardless of my friends and family there's all those people that I step on.
However, fighting in the army is a no no. When fighting for your country includes enlisting then you will most likely become a statistic, mutilated at the bottom of a bin, who died because he was also trying to fight for his country.
If you mean my country as in all living in it, then yes. Regardless of my friends and family there's all those people that I step on.
However, fighting in the army is a no no. When fighting for your country includes enlisting then you will most likely become a statistic, mutilated at the bottom of a bin, who died because he was also trying to fight for his country.
As it turns out I value my own life far more than I value those of others, especially strangers.