Originally Posted by
AmericanPride
So it is a normative valuation, not a factual one.
What if both joined their respective jobs to pay for college or for the healthcare benefits for their families? There has been extensive discussions about values here, and you have made clear that it's based upon the assumption that people join "on behalf of others" and implicitly that culture and norms surrounding that act makes service-members in some way socially or even materially privileged compared to the public. But here the top 5 reasons people enlist:
1. Education
2. Stability
3. Respect (from community, family)
4. Sense of community
5. Adventure and challenge
Seeing how people join for self-gain, and that's how the military actively recruits and retains, on what basis can you argue that there's a special military culture and that this culture ought to be preserved?
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