Ideas on love.If we loved our children would we send them to war?

Question

All wars are mass murder.
What is your responsibilty to your species and the care of your planet?

So we dont send them ok. so all you have learnt from experience and passed on as good parents, all their education cannot instill the reality of not killing your species.
Not to kill!

As for the terror at the door knocking while we have a warm chat about not killing, well if it was a global change and parents educated their children not to kill, then who would be knocking on your door?

Answer 1

Definitely no. A responsible parent (human) is helping the mind of his children to understand what is a divisive mentality. War is the world's presentation of selfishness (greed). The leaders believed and have faith that war is necessary to gain peace, this is absolute insanity.

Answer 2

It very much depends why thay are being sent,
There is a world of difference between being a participant in the killing, and someone who simply gets alongside those who are in the military.
I went to the Gulf War....feeding the lads, providing greeting cards to send home, just talking (and even more, listening) to them.
You do not have to agree with what someone is doing to show that you care.
As for sending someone to fight...no-one has the right to put another person in the role of a killer.
However, if your child chooses to go, make sure that you let them that, whatever they do, you will still love them

Answer 3

Provocative question..............for one thing it depends on the age of the 'children' and the country of origin. What may appear adhorent in one part of the world is, I feel, expected and honoured in another. What really irks me is that wars are man made..........sorry......person made (damn I hate having to be Politically Correct!). I would never choose to send my children (or any others for that matter) to war...............but, what if they have volutarily sign up for the Forces (as we call then in the UK) and have made a career decision as adults? No loving parent wants to see a child of theirs in a warfare scenario but there comes a time when parents have to respect the decisions of the child, even if they disagree. My take/view of UK Forces are...........they are not in war zones as antagonists but truly believe that they are undertaking valuable steps towards a more peaceful place in those war torn places.
War is never right but until humankind stop trying to impose their value system on others and realise that different does not always mean bad/wicked/wanton ............just different...........wars will continue. War is, ultimately about trying to force one value system on a different one. Could be wrong, just my opinion.

Answer 4

I believe that most parents do teach their children that its not right to kill, but parents also teach their children about choice too, many children grow up to become soldiers because its what they want to do, it isn't their soul intention to go and kill someone, its a career choice of wanting to protect the country they love first and foremost, we can't stop choices that the children make for their adult years, yes wars are unnecessary and hateful but choice is important too.

Answer 5

If our children are old enough and mature enough to join the miitary then we don't send them to war. Any person who enlists knows good and well that there is always the chance of being deployed to a war zone or any other hot spot. No one wants their loved one whether child or spouse or brother/sister, etc to go to war but it is inevitable. I fully support all our military personnel and pray for their safety. My son in law was in Afghanistan and I am so grateful that he came home safely.
I am so grateful to all our military personnel for the sacrifices they are willing to make.

Answer 6

Military ppl are old enough to be classified as "Adults".

Currently, the USA & most other countries are on a voluntary military fulfillment striving to get quotas. "Drafts" are common in European/ Asian countries like Italy/ China where they ask all men to service in their armed forces.

Many consider it an honor and duty to serve and protect their countries. It's mainly those dirty Hippies (draft dogging Hippies) who seem to think that defending one's country, state, family, and loved ones is bad thing.

This attitude is attributing to poor treatment of our military personnel returning from our current war. There hasn't been an inflation adjustment since the war in Nam. Since the Hippies have the majority voting (yes the pot smokers all grew up and are controlling stuff --- ), they still view the men and women who serve the military as non-important. Consequently, a returning injured military personnel is getting 1/4 of the monetary help (legs, handy - cap housing, and medical services) as they did in Nam. WTF?!?!?!?!? Isn’t this truly showing the value we have on children? How we treat them for trusting the elders? I see little love for the offspring of the elders from this point of view.

Answer 7

We don't send our children to war, our children go to war to protect us and our way of life it has been this way for millennium's. However ! there are cases where they are used by governments or heads of state for their own ends, thankfully the later case rarely happens with the British Army.

We should all be proud of our warriors for without them we would all be living a very different life.

Answer 8

It is the children who fight and die.

I am a veteran of Viet Nam. We should not have been there and my father didn't send me. You did. He was a veteran of WWII. His father didn't send him. You did. Our family's ancestors have fought in every war, beginning with the revolution, that this country has waged. None of their parents sent them. You did. I told my son not to go to Iraq because Iraq did nothing and we should not be killing them or getting ourselves killed in the process. You couldn't send him this time and he didn't go. If someone attacks this country. I will go. He will go.

Soldiers don't start wars and they don't want to be in them when there is one. We don't want to send our children to war. We have wars when our leaders fail us. We are responsible for having those leaders. We are responsible for sending our children to war. You are responsible. You don't love my child. I do.

Answer 9

We do not send our children to war any more, conscription stopped many years ago, men and women join the armed forces voluntarily and it is their decision, in full knowledge of what they are getting into, if you trained as a bus driver would you not expect to drive a bus?

Answer 10

I am anti-war myself. But I do understand why a parent would allow their child to go off to war. Some ideals are bigger than one person. Would you send your child off to defend Europe against Hitler, or would you hope that everyone else "loved their children less" and that someone else took care of us?