Soundbreaker Welch?
Tech Sergeant
Yeah, really sad. Yesterday all they were saying was that the killer was an asian male. Now today they said he was from Korea. I was like which side? Oh, our Allied side. Well, I guess it was just personal.
but it's interesting how killing effects you differantly. This guy kills 30 people in a grisly, senseless manner and we are shocked because it happened for no reason.
But if there was a patriotic reason and defending your country, or some soldier managed to pop off 30 terrorists in one go a lot of people would be cheering, including me. And that's a good thing, because they are mass murderers themselves.
Soldiers are trained to control themselves out of uniform, and are also trained to not target noncombatents. A soldier is also trained to never, never harm his fellow countrymen, for above all things his job is to protect them.
But what about the enemy civillians? Isn't the obligation and affection to them much less as a soldier?
Not trying to slam soldiers or military personnel, but in uniform, in a warzone, if a soldier was told to attack a university in Baghadad, NOT a university in the United States, would his training allow or help him to do it? Would his soldier mentality, trained to kill with nerves under control, give him more resolve? Would remorse play a factor?
I'm not a soldier so I don't know. But I know soldiers are ideally taught to kill with out constraint to themselves, only to orders.
And that soldiers under battle stress of ALL countries have been more likely than a civilian to kill ENEMY civilians en mass, and it has happened.
I'm just reflecting on whats makes one kill. I flippantly put up a list of targets in a poll, including the option of "non target city" and "Everythings a target." Thats saying a lot. Basically if I was attacking one of those options in real life, I would probably kill close to 30 enemy civilians, maybe more. And perhaps if I was a soldier, I would actually do it. If video games are any indication, I like playing as a WWII soldier in a game like "Medal of Honor, and I kill more than 30 sims on there.
I'm not trying to say I'm a soldier and I know that REAL combat is much more REAL. And that a soldier is trained for it, while I am not. I'm a civilian, and hampered by civilian thinking.
Of course I don't put or think of Veterans and sick people like this Korean murderer the same. I abbhor him for his killings. For one they are senseless and cruel and done on his own fellow students. Even if he was an enemy Korean soldier that did this mass atrocity in war to us it would be better than the way he did it as a mindless, civilian freak.
But I don't abbhor all killing, if is done in a military way. I like Richard Bong for killing possibly 40 Japanese in aircraft kills, and probably more on the ground during strafing runs. I know some people feel that our Bomber pilots in WWII are murderers for bombing German and Japanese cities, but I don't, even if an individual Bomber can kill more than 30 with it's bombs. Those crews were brave to do what they did and many of them died flying their missions.
Those German civilians were living in an enemy zone, and they weren't our civilians. Many of them were working to help Hitlers war effort in the factories.
I know that the Allied Navy and Ground troops in WWII also killed civilians, more often by mistake and not deliberate as the USAF or RAF Personnel did in the firebombings.
It's grissly what went on in WWII, sure.
But at least I can still honor those veterans of WWII, or the soldiers fighting today, for the killing they did for us and the "Free World."
Not like the disgust for that horrid kid that murdered 32 people in VA.
(Why did it give me d-i-s-g-u-s-t in a face?)
but it's interesting how killing effects you differantly. This guy kills 30 people in a grisly, senseless manner and we are shocked because it happened for no reason.
But if there was a patriotic reason and defending your country, or some soldier managed to pop off 30 terrorists in one go a lot of people would be cheering, including me. And that's a good thing, because they are mass murderers themselves.
Soldiers are trained to control themselves out of uniform, and are also trained to not target noncombatents. A soldier is also trained to never, never harm his fellow countrymen, for above all things his job is to protect them.
But what about the enemy civillians? Isn't the obligation and affection to them much less as a soldier?
Not trying to slam soldiers or military personnel, but in uniform, in a warzone, if a soldier was told to attack a university in Baghadad, NOT a university in the United States, would his training allow or help him to do it? Would his soldier mentality, trained to kill with nerves under control, give him more resolve? Would remorse play a factor?
I'm not a soldier so I don't know. But I know soldiers are ideally taught to kill with out constraint to themselves, only to orders.
And that soldiers under battle stress of ALL countries have been more likely than a civilian to kill ENEMY civilians en mass, and it has happened.
I'm just reflecting on whats makes one kill. I flippantly put up a list of targets in a poll, including the option of "non target city" and "Everythings a target." Thats saying a lot. Basically if I was attacking one of those options in real life, I would probably kill close to 30 enemy civilians, maybe more. And perhaps if I was a soldier, I would actually do it. If video games are any indication, I like playing as a WWII soldier in a game like "Medal of Honor, and I kill more than 30 sims on there.
I'm not trying to say I'm a soldier and I know that REAL combat is much more REAL. And that a soldier is trained for it, while I am not. I'm a civilian, and hampered by civilian thinking.
Of course I don't put or think of Veterans and sick people like this Korean murderer the same. I abbhor him for his killings. For one they are senseless and cruel and done on his own fellow students. Even if he was an enemy Korean soldier that did this mass atrocity in war to us it would be better than the way he did it as a mindless, civilian freak.
But I don't abbhor all killing, if is done in a military way. I like Richard Bong for killing possibly 40 Japanese in aircraft kills, and probably more on the ground during strafing runs. I know some people feel that our Bomber pilots in WWII are murderers for bombing German and Japanese cities, but I don't, even if an individual Bomber can kill more than 30 with it's bombs. Those crews were brave to do what they did and many of them died flying their missions.
Those German civilians were living in an enemy zone, and they weren't our civilians. Many of them were working to help Hitlers war effort in the factories.
I know that the Allied Navy and Ground troops in WWII also killed civilians, more often by mistake and not deliberate as the USAF or RAF Personnel did in the firebombings.
It's grissly what went on in WWII, sure.
But at least I can still honor those veterans of WWII, or the soldiers fighting today, for the killing they did for us and the "Free World."
Not like the disgust for that horrid kid that murdered 32 people in VA.
(Why did it give me d-i-s-g-u-s-t in a face?)