Why or why not?
2007-04-08 16:34:11 · 17 answers · asked by sweet_jilybean 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
While I was in our military we were trained for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. I was on two teams at company level. The companies decontamination team and the then called Radiac team. On the radiac team I learned a little more than the average soldier about the biology of the human body in a radioactive environment. A soldier on these teams could be ordered into a level of 200 rads per hour for mapping purposes. Carrying nothing more at the time than a Geiger counter and a dosimeter. Then I got to thinking on the possibility of having that order given to me, should a nuclear weapon be used, by us or someone else. It took some soul searching for the answer. My answer was yes, in the end. My reason was for several very basic facts. It was not for just the US, nor for military operations to continue in the area. It was for humanity itself.
At 200 rads per hour and length of time in that environment, several basic functions would be failing. Among them would be a diminished level of coherence even for basic directions of travel. It is a very realistic point that I might not make it back out to a safe area. At which point my body would become nothing more than a map marker for an aerial mapping of a blast sight.
To me the rest of humanity would benefit from that very small point of information. And yes I think you would be worth it.
You see a psychologist and a psychiatrist would call me suicidal for thinking of something bigger than me.
I cannot find where I would be able to seperate my one degree from the whole compass.
2007-04-08 17:09:49 · answer #1 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the when and the cause. If you mean now, absolutally not. I did not think then and do nothing think now we belong in the little "non-war".
However, I can't honetly say no completely. If it was something I felt passionantly for, perhaps, but I doubt it.
Beliefs and people are worth dying for... just not material things we tend to fight for rights to.
You gotta remember one important fact: war is a perspective. Just because we consider someone else to be the bad guys doesn't make it so.
They may view us the same way.
After all, there were and are still people who saw/see Hitler as a great hero.
I'm not one of those people, but that's how it is sometimes.
In order to die for my country, I have to feel justified.
Hope that helps!
2007-04-09 01:33:29 · answer #2 · answered by Paris T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but I also agree with tylerr6 (sorry if I got that wrong). If it came down to push come shove and one of the axis powers attacked us here in the USA, you got that right, babe!
I'm a heck of a shot with any gun you could possibly put in my grubby old paws! I would also use a trick or two I have up my sleeve to protect my brothers and sisters who are fighting beside me for the same thing.
Die protecting the USA? Yep! Its my country right or wrong, but I would not be willing to go to some other country and get all up in their business where we don't belong!
2007-04-09 00:29:24 · answer #3 · answered by celticenchantress_1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was in New York city the day that the twin towers fell to the ground. I watched the city I love go down. If you know what that feels like you would die for this country also. Every body helped us when we were dieing. I would be pround to return the favor to them and die for all the men and women that died that day and all the men and women that die over seas.
I think every body that reads these answers should feel bad that people will die for your sorry @ss but u wouldnt die for them.
I think some of these answers people wrote are sickining. We should be proud to live here. If you were to visit some other country like Iraq or Africa you would be dieing to go back to the usa.
thats all i have to say.
2007-04-09 00:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by guess what? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If I were young again I believe it would be the same as 50 years ago. I would die for the buddy beside me and the buddy backing me up. Countries go out the window when only two things stay in your life. Killing those who want to kill you and your Buddies, and, Keeping you Buddies and yourself alive.
2007-04-09 00:52:09 · answer #5 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, i do not belive that the way the crountry is being run with bush in the offfice right now it would be a waste of blood and for what so someone goes to tell your parents your son or daughter has died. as a new father my first and for most priorty is making sure that my son has me around and there will be nothing there to stop that
2007-04-09 03:59:00 · answer #6 · answered by Steve S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not. I don't love my country that much, especially in it's current state! I probably wouldn't die for any country. I would die for someone I loved very dearly, but that would be about it.
2007-04-09 01:02:55 · answer #7 · answered by Beth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The only ones I'd die for are my kids and husband. I'd never die for a piece of realestate, money, or religion.
2007-04-08 23:56:54 · answer #8 · answered by Amy Beware 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't. Don't think their should be wars. But also believe that their is no answer without blood being shed. So I wouldn't, basically also because I'm not to found of dying.
2007-04-09 00:05:48 · answer #9 · answered by enano 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way. I do not believe in how our country is being led, and the direction we are going. If we ever go to war on our land, I'm leaving the US.
2007-04-09 15:05:47 · answer #10 · answered by coyote 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋