Would you fight for your country?

[PhilM]

I wouldn't have a choice.

 

[Bungle]

I don't want to die and nor would I wish to kill someone else, which I would surely have to do if I were conscripted to fight, so no I wouldn't want to do it

If they wanted me to do something away from the fighting I'd certainly do my bit in that regard, but I wouldn't want to fight

They'd have to lock me up with the rest of the conchies

You could be responsible for picking a dozen slightly above average young soldiers in the hope that one of them turned out decent, and then laud it over the rest of us when one came off.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

You could be responsible for picking a dozen slightly above average young soldiers in the hope that one of them turned out decent, and then laud it over the rest of us when one came off.

Don't "decent" and "above average" essentially mean the same thing?

 

[Kurt.]

I don't want to die and nor would I wish to kill someone else, which I would surely have to do if I were conscripted to fight, so no I wouldn't want to do it

If they wanted me to do something away from the fighting I'd certainly do my bit in that regard, but I wouldn't want to fight

They'd have to lock me up with the rest of the conchies

Let's hope they don't ask you to spot talented scots to send into battle mikey

 

[Bungle]

Don't "decent" and "above average" essentially mean the same thing?

Potatoes Tomatoes

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Let's hope they don't ask you to spot talented scots to send into battle mikey

Because that's just what you need when you're fighting an unwinnable war in the desert, more ginger people

 

[degsy]

In theory; Sod that for a game of soldiers

but mostly, so the word has it, you fight because somebody is shooting at you and you don't want to let your mates down...fair enough too.

The 'Country' is seen as them, bosses, officers, hooray henry's, ruperts...who can with the odd exception do one

#never volunteer
#If you can't take a joke you shouldnt've joined

 

[COYBL25]

Yes, but only if they gave everyone the quality drugs that the Americans got to to take in Vietnam.

It'd be written into my terms of service.

 

[PITA]

No. I don't really get patriotism and all that. You are born where you are born, it's not like you have a choice.

Besides, I'm a lover not a fighter.

Which raises the question - do you get family?

Not having a go at you. It is though a similar concept.

 

[chicoazul]

Every man must do his duty.

 

[edge]

no to old, and even if I was younger would want an acre of land for everybody fighting as well as a wage otherwise I would be fighting over some rich bells land that wouldnt bat an eyelid if myself and everybody else I know disappeared off the planet , unless they were making money out of it.

 

[tommye]

Every man must do his duty.

My only duty is to my children. I owe this country nothing.

 

[Papa Shango]

Which raises the question - do you get family?

Not having a go at you. It is though a similar concept.

I'm not massively family orientated no. I get on with the ones I like. The ones I don't I wont bother with.

 

[Eggs]

...nah, I'd be useless.

 

[royalblue66]

The question should be, would I defend my family ?