>> Why voluntarily agree to protect and serve a community that doesn’t give a damn about you and would just as soon see you dead for not submitting to a thug ?
Because they’re RESPONSIBLE. To their families, to their community, to the LORD, to themselves.
Which, when you think about it, is a microcosm of the responsibility vs. irresponsibility issue that affects our entire nation.
To enlarge the scope of your valid question: why work, why obey laws, why pay taxes, why have faith in government, when so damn many are worked up by activists to be lazy gibsmedats, and so damn many in government are corrupt to the bone?
Faithfulness and responsibility are the glue that holds a society together.
While they last...
You’re right. But I submit if I’m going to put my neck on the line in such a capacity, I’d do it for a community that supports and appreciates what I do.