Irony?

@chief_big Said

Ok one of the main posts on the home page was about a guy how seen a soldier who died for his comrades ina arms etc.

Got me thinking of the irony in it........ reasoning for it?

Reason 1; He could not live with the guilt of having done nothing, well then it wasn't for his friends benefit but for his own and becomes a selfish act..... making the selfless act it is potrayed as a lie to control and allow the general majority to feel comfort for........ (see option 3)

Reasoin 2;(and the rarer of the two) he was self aware enough to realise the sacrafice he made and done so willingly, making him the proper and ideal member of society.... of which we need many more of (or atleast one).


Here in lies the irony ( for those of you yet still to figure it out )that genetic trait that we value so much died with him, instead we get his useless friends to contribute to the genetic gene pull making his sacrifice a waste.

One could argue that this (societies perfect man) choice of who survives is perfect because being perfect he knows what's best, however once again this trait we value was not intelligence but the mindset of an ant or a wasp who stings you and dies, and his sacrafice becomes not that of societies perfect man but that of a neandrethal.

The third option and most likely was; Monkey see monkey do, he was trained to die because if not he would have became a useless member of society. A sum of left over genetic knowledge from the pre-historic age (somewhat the same as option 2), who not only did it for a selfish reason but that we (modern society) deemed an acceptable loss because of the useless nature of his existance.

@restoreone Said

For the Vietnam War few faced it they just ran off to Canada.
Those that stay showed their true beliefs.IMO