Posted on 03/21/2010 3:59:52 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Edited on 03/21/2010 4:55:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Cowards leave their families in the care of the nanny state and abandon them recklessly and irresponsibly... doncha know...
He didn’t know he was going to die by intervening.
How would you feel if someone murdered your child because someone just stood by and watched it happen?
Sometimes you do what is right for the sake of it, regardless of the risk to yourself.
There are no guarantees in life. He could have stood by and watched the boy get murdered and died in a traffic accident on the way home anyway.
You’re despicable for advocating that he let that he stand by and let that kid get killed just so he didn’t take any unnecessary risk to himself.
You’re despicable for advocating that he let that he stand by and let that kid get killed just so he didn’t take any unnecessary risk to himself.
He's despicable for recklessly and irresponsibly abandoning his family (his wife-to-be and his two kids) to be without any breadwinner and without support from him, for the rest of their lives and having them irresponsibly given over to the nanny state for society to take care of them, instead of him taking care of them -- as is his sole responsibility -- and not society's.
That's exactly how to raise more Democrats (and not conservatives) in our society... yeah, a good idea all right...
Thank you MM.
Common decency and common sense;)
By your twisted reasoning, soldiers are just as irresponsible for enlisting in the military and going to war.
You don’t know. They might get killed in battle and leave a family.
Might as well damn police officers while you’re at it.
And don’t forget firefighters who also take risks to save people in burning buildings.
Why don’t we just pass laws that anybody engaged in a profession where they have a risk of dying be single. Send all those parents back home to their comfy little risk free enclaves and not worry about the rest of the world.
I don’t know how you can live with yourself.
Not so common, sad to see.
Just north of my undergrad Alma Mater, Fordham University. The nabe (Bedford Park) is not the greatest, though still better than 10 blocks further south.
In Obama’s America, these fine youths should be given a Presidential Medal of Honor.
By your twisted reasoning, soldiers are just as irresponsible for enlisting in the military and going to war.
I already answered that one in Post #37 ... :-)
Soldiers do risk their lives every day. How dare you presume to judge them. They do not live the cushy little life that a coward like you lives. Keep pushing your liberal crap, but leave our heroes out of it.
At 51, I’m in a different situation than this guy was, but I can only hope I’d behave half as well. I cannot imagine what it would be like to spend the rest of my life rationalizing cowardice to myself.
As a military brat who spent 25 years in myself, the duty of the military is to win. Coming home is obviously highly desirable, but not always required. My Dad was 49 when he was killed in Vietnam, and I was 49 when I went to Afghanistan on my last deployment. I’m glad I came back, but hope I didn’t allow it to affect any decisions I made...although as a bifocal wearing O-5, I wasn’t able to get off the FOB much.
Soldiers do risk their lives every day.
We're not talking about eliminating risks here (as if they didn't exist), because we all have risks in life, no matter who we are.
What we're talking about is that guy's first responsibility (which is to his family, his wife-to-be and his kids), and then, minimizing his risks (by his own proper choices), and not "eliminating" risks.
Being irresponsible towards his family and not minimizing risks... he has simply failed his family and done so for someone who is not even his family. That's putting his family second.
And the military does the most in minimizing risks. Just consider this... how many military people were killed in combat in Gulf War I? You can see that they minimize risks. It was less risky in Gulf War I in fighting those battles, than it was driving on U.S. Highways, in any one day in America... :-)
You’re not my family, but several members of my family have risked their lives for you. Their risks were not minimal by any standard. Now please quit trying to minimize the risks our heroes take, just so you can pretend to make your point. Trample someone other than our military personnel to “justify” your self-serving cowardice.
Thank you for your and your family’s service.
When a guy abandons his family by his reckless and risky choices, made irresponsibly and leaves his family (his wife-to-be and his son) to the welfare of others — he has failed his family... that’s as plain as it gets...
That is not what I would call military service. I’m damn proud of our military. They don’t fail their families by serving. You fail all around with your cowardice.
You can excuse cowardice all you want.
The rest of us don’t and aren’t.
Fine. you don’t take any risks. Just watch the kid get murdered and live with yourself, but count us out.
I don’t know how you can live with yourself.
ST lives with himself/herself by shifting blame to America’s heroes. I’d like to drop him/her into the middle of Iraq or Afghanistan.
He did not *abandon* his family.
There’s a saying,.... Throw a rock over a fence and the dog that yelps is the one that got hit.
I don’t know why you’re do condemning of this guy, but it sure gives one food for thought.
You can justify it to yourself all you want, but you’re going to be the only one who buys it.
Go slink back under whatever rock you came out from.....
A man knows where his responsibility lies — and it’s with his wife and kids... he always puts them first in his choices... that’s a conservative... and then, all other things come after that, in our society...
Liberals give over their families to the welfare state to take care of them, doncha know... :-)
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