how can u respect a soldier who is laughing with u but then ordered to kill u and puts a bullet in your head?

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how can u respect a soldier who is laughing with u but then ordered to kill u and puts a bullet in your head. I mean thesoldier who is laughing drinking smiling with u your best mate but then his master tellls him to kil u and then he turns to u and puts a bullet in your brain-how would u respect such a person who could do that

Answer 1

What is your issue with soldiers? If you're a pacifist or anti-authoritarian then fine, I can respect that. I am both myself. But your questions seem to portray you as a person who thinks in terms of gross charicatures and the unlikeliest worst-case scenarios. With all due respect, I think you need to do a much better job grounding yourself in reality.

Answer 2

You really need to turn off the computer and go outside and play.

Okay, so you're not going to do that.

Here's a way to get a clue about this kind of thing. Go join a team for some competitive sport. Participate as best you can for a year. By then, you might have a clue, as you will at least have had the opportunity to be struggling against others that want to defeat you, and experience the feeling of struggling to win against an opponent you respect without hatred or fear, and the willingness to risk losing in order to have a chance at winning.

If you can't grasp that little illusionary version of armed struggle, you just haven't any hope of knowing why soldiers can kill and die without hate, and fight people they respect who want to kill them.

If that's too hard for you, turn off the computer and go outside and play.

Answer 3

Before you start to respect him you must first know what it takes to be a soldier,these is someone how has been trained to be who he his,he has been trained to shut out his emotions,fear, sentiments are not what you should expect from a soldier,his main objective is to country,and his superior is the symbol of that country.If you tell a solider to bomb his country he would,unless he is not that true soldier.there are some trainings that are carried out to test all these in a soldier,you may be given a gun to shoot your bunk mate at the academy,but the gun may be filled with blanks,or real bullets,the soldiers that perform well at these tests are considered the best among the rest.You have to respect them for that (soldiers)most of them come back home hunted for all they were made to face in battle.how many combatant soldiers do you know that retires with his senses?most of them are useless when they are released,better still,discharged.they are the most loyal of all the citizens of a country.they put there country first before anything else,for him to have pulled the trigger on you he is carrying out a duty that you would have shy ed from because you are not that loyal.

Answer 4

The quick answer is, you can't because you are dead. THe longer answer is, it's his job to kill you if he is ordered to, regardless of his personal feelings. He may like you personally, but if you are an enemy of his state, and you are a danger to him, his comrades in arms, and his country, then how could you respect him for NOT killing you? That's why, in so many cases, soldiers are taught to react to orders, not think about them. His personal feelings have nothing to do with his doing his duty.

Answer 5

Your enemies always remain somewhere close that is why you always rethink the motives of those involved in your inner circle.

How can anyone have dinner and smile at George Bush at any given time knowing he is sending our troops in to murder a nation for their oil. And he used the pretext of 9/11 to do it. By the way has anyone seen Osama Bin Laden. I bet George, Sr., George Jr and good old brother Jeb has!

Answer 6

Because that soldier understands that his own personal likes and opinions are secondary to the achievement of the larger purpose. He understands that there is a larger picture at stake and that it is his duty to fulfill his part, even though he may not completely understand the complexity of his own role.

Answer 7

You'd be dead so it wouldn't matter.

Now keep in mind a solider has to obey only LAWFUL orders. If the order to shoot you wasn't lawful he wouldn't do it. If it was a lawful order for whatever reason then I don't have a problem respecting him.

Answer 8

I would be very respectful of a person who could do that!!

Answer 9

so mary you really jsut dont like soldiers much eh? this is your 400th statement to that effect. We get it..go hide in your closet now ok?

Answer 10

one of two things:

1. You don't live in the U.S.A.

2. You live in a country where the military is barely under control.