Our Gov. is immoral for not putting 'Warning you may DIE' on recruitment

[dArKeR]

commercials.

I've noticed for the last week during the hockey games they're advertising heavily. One makes it look like joining the Marines is like playing a video game. Another says be the 'world's best warrior'. Don't you think in the year 2004 the Earth should be moving in a different direction?

Should the Whores have to put a warning like tobacco and alcohol do? Or prescription/over-the-counter drugs warn of possible side effects.

How shameful are we?

[seabeyond]

1. any kids that doesnt know better by now

well hey

[lastknowngood]

2. Oh that's just the tip of the iceberg. They are doing it at junior

and Senior high schools using video games and slick advertising to lure the unwary into 3 to 4 years of death defying below minimum wage work for the BFEE.

[Columbia]

3. Actually, a warning like that may actually increase recruitment

If you go by the trends of R-rated movies and M-rated video games. Slap a warning label on something and watch it increase in popularity.

I'll add that I think warning labels are dumb and superfluous anyway. You don't need a label to tell you that smoking is dangerous to your health or that you may possibly give your life in the armed services.

[Qanisqineq]

4. If the recruit doesn't know

that dying is a possibility, they have been living under a rock.

[Vas Liz]

5. I see no problem with this

This is the same kind of argument for putting "Warning: Ingesting this may be harmful" on a Tylex bottle. (can you say duh?)

If a person aged 18 or over does not realize they can die in the military then I seriously doubt they could pass the mental competency standards for military induction.

[Qanisqineq]

6. Much better put than my post

:toast:

[Columbia]

7. Actually, I kinda liked your living under the rock comparison

[Qanisqineq]

8. Thanks Columbia!

I've seen a few of your posts around lately and I must say, from the ones I've read, I always agree with you! Except on this one ;)

[Columbia]

11. You're welcome

Hehe, stick around a bit and I'm sure you'll find something you disagree with me on eventually as I do hold some eclectic and oftentimes unpopular positions. :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Young people in that age range are notoriously

unable to think of themselves as dying. It's something that happens to other people, especially older people.

Personally, I hate the ad, run endlessly on the International Channel, that goes, "Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a soldier?" Somebody seriously needs to take the sound track of that ad and do a video incorporating images from Iraq.

[Vas Liz]

10. BS

It may be true young people don't worry about death. And why should they? In normal situations they are one of the statistically least likely groups likely to die in NORMAL day to day situations. This does NOT equal having no fear of death in non-standard situations. Think if you took a poll of young people in Iraq they would be "unable to think of themselves as dying"? Not bloodly likely. For an american though in relatively safe surroundings I would say there would be probably be something very wrong if they were worried about death.

Now if you change those statistics a bit - say, in a COMBAT situation, then yes, that changes. And most young people WOULD and DO realize that in dangerous situations they may need to actually start worrying about death. If a draft were to start today one of the FIRST things on a draftees (or even potential draftees) mind would probably be worry of death.

[DarkPhenyx]

12. OK, let's be honest here.

Hw many people can honestly say that they don't know that enlisting in the military might end up with you dying in a far off land? Show of hands please.

Let's try and not be intentionally stupid people.

[not systems]

13. The other night on the local news a new recruit said...

they were join because,"They would get pay to do what they wanted."

What?

Maybe a warning is necessary after all we are talking about teenagers
with not much sense to start with.

[dArKeR]

14. I met all kinds of kids who get transferred to Oahu for duty. They told me

how they expected and were promised to be doing a 'cool' job and they ended up washing dishes, scraping floors, cleaning toilets, driving a truck loading and unloading it...