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Topic Title: The lowest aim in your life is to become a soldier
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Created On: 03/01/2013 09:59 PM
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 The lowest aim in your life is to become a soldier   - dirtyfrank - 03/01/2013 09:59 PM  
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dirtyfrank

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"Young men: The lowest aim in your life is to become a soldier. The good soldier never tires to distinguish right from wrong. He never thinks, never reasons; he only obeys. If he is ordered to fire on his fellow citizens, on his friends, on his neighbors, on his relatives, he obeys without hesitation. If he is ordered to fire down a crowded street when the poor are clamoring for bread, he obeys and sees the grey hairs of age stained with red and the life tide gushing from the breasts of women, feeling neither remorse nor sympathy. If he is ordered off as a firing squad to execute a hero or benefactor, he fires without hesitation, though he knows the bullet will pierce the noblest heart that ever beat in the human breast.

"A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. ....All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer.

"No man can fall lower than a soldier - it is a depth beneath which we cannot go."

-Jack London
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