Four in 10 millennials would dodge conscription if a world war broke out and just 12 per cent of the overall population would volunteer to serve in the case of a world war, according to a new poll

I'm sure I'll be downvoted for saying this, but at best I feel pity for those who willingly go to war, and at worst I have little to no respect for them.

Ask them what they went to war for, and most will tell you they went out of responsibility for their country, to fight for freedom, etc. Bullshit. You know what they really went for? They went to try to rid themselves of their own insecurities as men. They went to kill. They went because they thought if they went and survived, that they would be "men" when they came home. It takes a man to kill. Isn't that what Hollywood war movies have taught us all? That to kill another man is somehow steeped in glory and holds a mystique that is attractive to women, and respected by society?

Well let me tell you something - you didn't kill for freedom, you murdered for corporations, the women who are attracted to murderers are not attractive to me, and I thank God every day that I never joined the military because I don't have the horrors or war haunting my psyche on top of all my other issues.

Think for yourself before you pick up a gun and travel to another man's country to kill him, or you'll deserve every bit of your fate. To quote a cliche'd bumpersticker, "war is not the answer", and it never was.

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