PURPOSE OF asktherecruiterthis.com
SHOULD YOU MAKE YOURSELF INTO A SOLDIER? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT TO BE?
War is a terrible, and almost always avoidable waste of human lives and resources. It causes severe and permanent pain and loss. Over the last few decades, due to international cooperation, the number of armed conflicts between countries has been reduced significantly. However, wars are still fought, and for the near future, more will probably be fought. Ninety-five percent of the soldiers doing the killing and dying will be very young people who have had very little time to learn much about the world, or to carefully decide how to build a sane, happy life for themselves or others. If they decide to become soldiers, those years of their lives will forever mark them. Though they are adults, they are extremely young adults when recruiters search for them to convince them to sign a contract. This purpose of this webpage is to give them a rich set of ways to think about this decision.
CLAY SLATE
PHD
Ever since becoming active in criticizing US involvement in the Vietnam war, Clay has been interested in how to prevent wars, when this is possible.
“Only someone who is seriously deranged wants there to be a war. Don’t give those people authority, and don’t give them guns.”
- Leverne George
PEOPLE TO RESPECT
Listen to them
An overwhelming mass of books and movies and songs have been dedicated to the heroes of wars. Much less has been said about those who would not fight in wars, or who protested wars, or even stopped them. Here are two of my favorite heroes:
The brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan were Catholic priests who were leaders in the movement to stop the Vietnam War.
In 411 BC, the story of Lysistrata tells how she organized the women of Athens and Sparta to stop the bloody war between the two cities by refusing sex to the men until the war stopped. It worked!
