TAFBSooner
11/12/2015, 05:20 PM
18 to 21 year olds can't be trusted to make correct decisions about responsible drinking yet they can be trusted to wade through the BS propaganda put out by the US military and US government that is designed to appeal to this age on a purely emotional level of thinking. And I disagree that the decision of these individuals who are enticed to join the military only affects them. Who takes care of the PTSD patients, the permanently disabled, the families left without fathers and mothers?
Defending your country from an imminent threat of invasion is a worthy cause to serve in the militatry. Being IED fodder just to prop up despotic allies in the ME isn't.
They are not developmentally ready to weigh the consequences of drinking OR enlisting. That is precisely why the military targets the 18- to 21-year-olds. If they depended on mature adults to enlist they wouldn't be able to start all these wars in the Middle East or elsewhere.
Defending your country from an imminent threat of invasion is a worthy cause to serve in the militatry. Being IED fodder just to prop up despotic allies in the ME isn't.
They are not developmentally ready to weigh the consequences of drinking OR enlisting. That is precisely why the military targets the 18- to 21-year-olds. If they depended on mature adults to enlist they wouldn't be able to start all these wars in the Middle East or elsewhere.