Regarding The Orlando Attack

[silent_o]

This individual supposedly had some ties to Islamic State

Comments

[silent_o]

I tried to enlist. Medically ineligible.

Annapolis was at the top of my list of schools back when I graduated high school.
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That's kinda like saying "Don't get involved in politics unless you're a politician."

[allaboutweather]

I would have due to my very high ASVAB score but my family objected to it.

[silent_o]

I had a near perfect ASVAB score myself. So close to carrying on the family's Naval tradition...

[allaboutweather]

None of my immediate family served. Hell, a few were still living in Europe during WWII.

[jordan179]

Since most people are not military or ex-military, how then are we ever to choose war, under your rule?

[eta_ta]

the point is - we have a professional army. our military are engaged in active defense of the Nation, not in a bar brawl. so stop pushing emotional buttons, this is infantile.

[jordan179]

Then it's a non-functional principle, because societies must be able to choose war upon occasion or they will not be able to survive in competition against other societies who have that option. A society governed by your principle would have to be either a military dictatorship/junta, a democratic timocracy like Heinlein's Federation from Starship Troopers, or vulnerable to every other society which chose wiser principles of debate.