Originally Posted by
feltf4
Do you feel as you’re a better person than everyone else because you joined the military?
You assume that anyone who has not been in the military has not fought for anything? You think because no one has joined the military, walked around in camo, sitting in the desert, are not brave people?
You’re living a short and sad life bro if you think that. Everyday, you have to wake up and wipe you own butt, just like everyone else in the world. Well, actually, you probably have someone do that for you, with blue gloves on obviously.
Did I say that?
Or did YOU say that.
I merely made an example of prototypical profession that requires exhaustive effort, dedication, and commitment to something greater than oneself, which includes the threat of death. Fighting for a contract is not the same as fighting for your country. There simply isn't a comparison. An equivalency would require you to break the law, unless you happen to have a license to kill. Sorry but braving the NY cold is not bravery. Wearing lanyards or luggage grips is not bravery. Bravery is not a function of being "better", it's a function of doing something greater than oneself when many others will not. You wouldn't be online right now had lots of American soldiers not died in WWII. I remind you that Japan and Nazi Germany were formidable enemies. But I will say this, you should have respect for people who have done things in life that you may not have. Think of a fire fighter who has run into a burning building to save a life, of a missionary in a foreign country captured and tortured to death.
But to address your use of the word bravery... there can be many forms. Erin Brockavitch is brave, Martin Luther King was brave, Ben Shapiro is brave, Christians in the middle east being slaughtered are brave, Diamond and Silk are brave, Edward Snowden is really brave, the people run over by tanks in Tiennemen Square are really brave, and so on....
Bravery just doesn't largely exist with the sheepish, beaten down, defeatist pilot group of BJ. 90% of BJ pilots ARE the problem because their attitude is so **** poor. They bend over and jump higher. Why is it that BJ didn't have a pilot ALPA group from Day 1? Did they FOOLISHLY believe that history wouldn't repeat itself despite there never being an exception to the rule?
Code Pink has more bravery than the average BJ pilot who have been wrong for 15+ years.
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