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Originally posted by Superman
This is true and something I have considered often. Of course, if you understand the question, you ask it to yourself. Would I? And we just don't know. Most of us, anyway.

Another related thought is the quickness with which young men will reach a decision to stride headlong into a confrontation that has xx% chance of ending their lives. While I respect the whole "equality of the sexes" notion begin a few decades ago, I am damned tired of the notion that men are selfish. Bull****. A man is walking down the street with a couple of ladies, who may not even be relatives or close friends. A mugger confronts the group I assume with some confidence, that virtually any man in that situation will understand and serve his role. He will, at a minimum, occupy the mugger long enough for the women to escape. Selfish? Nope. Self-sacrificing? That's what I see. I am in the construction industry. The Industrial Athletes who build our buildings and bridges risk their lives and health every day. Nobody thanks them. That's just part of being a man. You just don't think about yourself.

And by they way, David and Randy and the rest of you service guys.......I don't care much for the leadership, or lack thereof, of your Commander in Chief, but I am in awe of your service and selflessness in performing your duty. It's not pretty. Not glamorous. But it's necessary and it is a high calling.

Pat.....shut up.

You're a feckless statist, of course you idolize the military, they're the statist's muscle. The statist's knuckle-draggers as it were.