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Originally Posted by Flubflow
The general idea is that when you send soldiers to war you ARE sacrificing them so that the rest of you can hopefully sleep more peacefully in your beds.
When you send teenage soldiers to war then you are sacrificing children. It is a perfectly valid point of view and to some extent depends on your legal/moral definition of "child".
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Someone who's old enough to sign up in the US military is not a child.
And the thing about soldiers is, ultimately, part of their job is to be sacrificed. That's one of the reasons why I have such high regard for them, they are willing to lay down their lives.