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Originally Posted by soylentgreen
Ugh!  I consider the idea that you're serving to cover us "soft" proles at home obnoxious and insulting. |
Peachy, dude, just keep in mind, he's right. Would I handle combat well? I dunno, after my twenty-first pair of underwear and the first meal actually held down and fully digested that week, I might adapt to the kind of life he leads.
Its a diametric opposite of what would be considered "normal" in civilian life. And the fact is, these guys coming back from combat tours need about as much defruitcaking as your average cultist who's spent the last year in a cave under a charismatic lunatic.
I don't kowtow and bow quite so much as your typical "support the troops" fanatic, but I do fully understand the unbelievable (and
voluntary) psychological trauma these guys inflict on themselves just to get by day to day. I do respect that sacrifice of personal humanity, I just don't fawn over it because they
did volunteer for it. If the man says blasting avatars on a computer screen helps him stay sane, hey, I'll chip in for the next expansion for him.
As for the "sociopathy", put it this way, if it weren't for the paranoia level instincts they develop as a part of their lifestyle, the odds are, he'd be returning to the US horizontally in an ornate flagdraped box instead of a little screwloose in the bone box. Take your pick.