For starters,
Press: "Do you feel anything when you shoot a terrorist?"
Soldier: "Recoil"
Soldier: "Recoil"
Today's kids are obedient and nasty.
Check this out.
These kids have decided that they want to help the state kill people for a living.
Most disturbing of all:
“I like shooting them,” Cathy said. “I like the sound they make. It gets me excited.”" This is coming from a 14 year old.
OK, I like FPS games too, but this is just an example of what it comes down to IN REALITY. This is Hitler Youth RIGHT NOW! Not a theory.
Also, I like shooting. But I have never shot at anything remotely resembling a human being.
I do not have a problem with teaching firearm safety at a young level, but senseless robotic violence training is completely absurd.
I would be much happier if kids were trained to defend their homes and know their second amendment rights, than help government crack down on civil liberties.
I am quite convinced that there is some brainwashing going on in these programmes too.
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My, gosh, that does sound like the Hitler Youth (Godwin's Law again).
Cant say for them (not American), but teaching young teenagers to be so violent in their youth will have sever impacts, as teenagers are usually more receptive at that stage.
The Hitler Youth provided many outdoor trips to young kids, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT it is possible to turn that into military interest when the kids grow up. It also made the kids view the Nazis favorably.
Try not to take a stab at what I am saying by saying that it is invalid to study history and draw comparisons. I am not trying to say that if Hitler did something then it must be bad/good logically. That would not be correct.
I have not made a reduction error, nor would I want anyone to reduce my statement to some logic fallacy or rule, because that is stereotyping, which is also degrading.
What I mean is that the training of kids to kill, to dominate, to have a need for power and to be loyal to the state and its policies is an effective way to create a police force that is used to oppress people, regardless of what any law states. They are brutes, not policemen.
And correct in stating that this training of kids in a paramilitary fashion has been used before in history to similar effect, and is also used today, and certainly not just in the US. Many guerilla forces have used child soldiers, and the way they force them to kill is to put them through mental suffering, destroy their innocence and make the whole thing sound cool.
Sspeaking of this, I think computer games and airsoft games are also part of the whole problem. Actually, the earlier they start, the deeper and more profound the impact. I believe that regular exposure leads to an even more impact.
However, I do not consider marksmanship or similar activities to be violent, even though we may think so, due to all the movies with guns and violence. Firearms are not inherently violent, it is the manner in which it is used and the intentions that cause violence.
I believe that firearms are only safe with a people with the highest respect for human life, individual right, integrity and property rights. I do not think either, that a defender should intentionally try to kill, because I don't think that anyone can be completely immoral or evil and hence they do have potential to change.
We live in a very interesting age, in which most people are overwhelmed by all the material advances, and the so-called advances in ideas, and hence submit willingly to the people who they see as people who have the answers. These people have a plan, and while it may look like well-intentioned, they could be self-serving. Our world, today, leaves a lot of room for the lust for total power, immorality and abuse of privilege and right.
I am typing this to try and stay awake in the heat, in the pool chairs downstairs. Got to relax now.
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