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| What would you do for your country if it was under threat? |
| I'd contribute a coupla hundred dollars |
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9% |
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| I'd contribute a few thousand/half of my wealth |
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3% |
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| I'd contribute all of my wealth |
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0% |
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| I'd fight, with a 1/100 risk of dying |
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0% |
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| I'd fight, with a 1/50 risk of dying |
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9% |
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| I'd fight, with a 1/10 risk of dying |
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6% |
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| I'd fight, with a 1/2 risk of dying |
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3% |
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| I'd die for my country |
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45% |
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| I'd die and sacrifice my children for my country |
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0% |
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| I'd complain bitterly on the Current Events forum but do nothing |
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24% |
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Cornfed
Joined: 14 Mar 2008
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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: What would you do for your country if it was under threa |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
| How patriotic are you? What would you do for your country if its existence as an independent entity was under threat from an outside force whose philosophy/political system you strongly disagreed with had a high probability of conquering and subjugating your nation |
Go and teach English in Korea I expect. Seriously, none of our respective countries ever has existed as an independent political entity and it should be apparent that our overlords in the City of London or whereever have never had our best interests at heart.
As to the issue of some army actually invading New Zealand, I'd be like "Well, clearly this society is fucked, but perhaps you guys can do something with it, and if you want to just kill everyone well, meh, maybe it's for the best". |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Some of you pinko fockers would elect Obama. Unwise. You're the same martha fockers who've never served your country. You can only live off it's bounty until it gets a little hard up and then complain that your needs aren't being met.
See? Look what you started. |
Most military personnel don't join to 'serve their country', they join for economic reason, or, in some cases because of familial pressures.
Anyway I don't agree that fighting in places like Iraq is 'serving your country'. I think its hurting the US more than helping it. It should be called 'hindering your country and ruining its reputation' instead of 'serving' it |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| If Canada were under attack first I'd get myself a real big gun, then I'd make lots of babies and teach them how to use real big guns. Hopefully the war would end soon and then me and my babies could go back to our hippy lives. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Some of us have already served our country and look at many of you here as mere slimy civilians. |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Some of us have already served our country and look at many of you here as mere slimy civilians. |
Many people look at soldiers like they are poor, uneducated boys with guns who slaughter people for the benefit of a few rich. That doesn't mean it's right, now does it? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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I own firearms in the US and I have regularly practiced with them.
I'm not foot soldier, but some invaders are going to feel sorry for coming into my neighborhood.
I got a .308 semi-Auto AK Saiga rifle at home. Best bang for your buck rifle out there, IMHO. |
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Cornfed
Joined: 14 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Faunaki wrote: |
| Many people look at soldiers like they are poor, uneducated boys with guns who slaughter people for the benefit of a few rich. That doesn't mean it's right, now does it? |
Although, as it happens, it is. They're also welfare-sponging parasites. |
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Quack Addict
Joined: 31 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Faunaki wrote: |
| Gopher wrote: |
| Some of us have already served our country and look at many of you here as mere slimy civilians. |
Many people look at soldiers like they are poor, uneducated boys with guns who slaughter people for the benefit of a few rich. That doesn't mean it's right, now does it? |
lmao |
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Faunaki
Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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I own firearms in the US and I have regularly practiced with them.
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My husband and I have already discussed the fact that when we move back to Canada we are getting ourselves some firearms. |
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jkamphof
Joined: 12 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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No silly piece of cloth with a maple leaf is worth my blood. No politicians lying ass is worth my blood either (none that I know of yet, and I'm a poli-sci student). Political boundaries change and always will, I have no intention of dying for other peoples silly notions of politics, power or control
However, in defense of liberty (say the aggressor was rather mean and smelled bad) or in the defense of good values over more totalitarian values I would perhaps be more inclined to aid my fellow man...but never for a flag or soil that will outlive me no matter what I do.
I like living...and gotten rather attached to it. |
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Bread
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:21 am Post subject: |
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| I guess I could force myself to part with a couple hundred bucks. Initially I would have checked the "wouldn't do anything and move away" option if there had been one. |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Some of us have already served our country and look at many of you here as mere slimy civilians. |
Thank you. That's what I should had said. Left right left, your military left.... |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| I'd die for my country as soon as I see politicians fighting and dieing on the front line. I'd fight for my family, that's about it. |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Classified
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| Cornfed wrote: |
| Faunaki wrote: |
| Many people look at soldiers like they are poor, uneducated boys with guns who slaughter people for the benefit of a few rich. That doesn't mean it's right, now does it? |
Although, as it happens, it is. They're also welfare-sponging parasites. |
If so, that's only because they're paid about two bucks an hour. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:59 am Post subject: |
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Well, I'm rather nationalistic, but it depends who invades. If it's a bunch of Jihadists, by golly I'd rather kill a jihadist than have sex with a beautiful woman. But, since my country (or countries, since I've two passports) were invaded by what I thought were a superior force, perhaps I'd start killing my countrymen. It depends on the invading force.
I'm ideologically-driven, not nationalistically. I am a nationalist and a patriot, but I'd replace my nations by something foreign if it fit my ideology. |
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