I had a high-school friend who got involved with violent criminal activity. He was from a lower income family, but he still had some opportunities, he just never committed to making them work. He decided crime was the best path to what he felt he deserved out of life.
He did some bad shit and died violently at a young age while trying to rob someone. He wasn’t in the right, there was nothing romantic or justified about his criminal career, and I believe that he brought his sad, early end upon himself. His choices made him a bad person in many respects.
It’s still a fucking tragedy that he died so young and I still miss the friend he was when we were in school.
No one should demand you revere these soldiers as martyrs, however, you don’t have to be a die-hard MAGA or even agree with their choice to enlist to feel bad about these people being killed, especially when it’s because of such senseless bullshit. Sympathy and empathy just work like that sometimes.
I had a high-school friend who got involved with violent criminal activity. He was from a lower income family, but he still had some opportunities, he just never committed to making them work. He decided crime was the best path to what he felt he deserved out of life.
He did some bad shit and died violently at a young age while trying to rob someone. He wasn’t in the right, there was nothing romantic or justified about his criminal career, and I believe that he brought his sad, early end upon himself. His choices made him a bad person in many respects.
It’s still a fucking tragedy that he died so young and I still miss the friend he was when we were in school.
No one should demand you revere these soldiers as martyrs, however, you don’t have to be a die-hard MAGA or even agree with their choice to enlist to feel bad about these people being killed, especially when it’s because of such senseless bullshit. Sympathy and empathy just work like that sometimes.