Yeah, those places are all pretty bad but people still get murdered because of homophobia in the west. I don't know how it compares to military service but we come out without combat training.
People get murdered in the West for literally every reason. Gay people are not special. They also march down the streets in the West, wearing strap-ons and bondage and neon-rainbow clothing, announcing to the entire world they exist, for an entire month
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It is also not common as far as I know for gay people to be tortured to death in the West (no more so than, say, women, at any rate). A soldier captured by the cartels or the Taliban, however?
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There are programs in schools to help the lbtq in the West. Soldiers will spend years isolated from their families, in foreign countries, surrounded by the enemy, being belittled at every turn over stupid military politics
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They'll see people they spent a weeks working with be blown up, or lose limbs, or bleed out in their arms.
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They'll be given shitty food and crappy weaponry, end up with PTSD and tinnitus almost as a guarantee with sign-up. They'll miss the births of their children and the deaths of family members.
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They have to watch presidents and leaders put their lives and their programs in jeopardy to play politics and social correctness.
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They may have to decide who to leave to die on the battlefield - could be between a commanding officer or literally the soldier's best friend.
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They'll be required to kill people they don't want to kill, and ridiculed endlessly for it regardless of whether it was necessary
They'll go out and die to protect people who may go on to try and destroy the very freedom the soldier gave its life for.
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And after everything they'll go through, the thanks they'll receive is often to be forgotten, maybe given a token acknowledgement a couple times a year.
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But yeah, telling people who you want to rub genitals with is definitely more braver in the West than being a soldier. Also stunning.
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It is also not common as far as I know for gay people to be tortured to death in the West (no more so than, say, women, at any rate). A soldier captured by the cartels or the Taliban, however?
.
There are programs in schools to help the lbtq in the West. Soldiers will spend years isolated from their families, in foreign countries, surrounded by the enemy, being belittled at every turn over stupid military politics
.
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They'll be given shitty food and crappy weaponry, end up with PTSD and tinnitus almost as a guarantee with sign-up. They'll miss the births of their children and the deaths of family members.
.
They have to watch presidents and leaders put their lives and their programs in jeopardy to play politics and social correctness.
.
They may have to decide who to leave to die on the battlefield - could be between a commanding officer or literally the soldier's best friend.
.
They'll be required to kill people they don't want to kill, and ridiculed endlessly for it regardless of whether it was necessary
.
And after everything they'll go through, the thanks they'll receive is often to be forgotten, maybe given a token acknowledgement a couple times a year.
.
But yeah, telling people who you want to rub genitals with is definitely more braver in the West than being a soldier. Also stunning.