It’s about teaching people to disregard their own self-preservation, when following orders. That’s why they say “it scares me”.
It doesn’t need to be machine gun firing (part for the whole; “dangers in general”); or literally running towards it (hyperbole; “risking to get harmed”).
You might agree with their point, or disagree with it. However, “le ackshyually to le narwhal bacon’s knee, you’re instructed to take cover lol EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!!!” doesn’t address what they said at all. And, like, people get rubbed off the wrong way when others use those “ackshyually”.
It’s about teaching people to disregard their own self-preservation, when following orders. That’s why they say “it scares me”.
Perfectly valid to fear being compelled to move toward danger.
But can we agree that: 1) saying “teaching you to run into machine fire” is negative tonally, and 2) you could make the quoted point illustratively, without phrasing it so reductively?
The most obvious read of the original line is “jarheads being sent to their deaths,” – they told me to, so I’m going to run into machine gun fire – which would obviously receive pushback.
And that’s saying nothing about the actual philosophies of how to deal with danger, vis a vis fleeing it or neutralizing it.
It’s about teaching people to disregard their own self-preservation, when following orders. That’s why they say “it scares me”.
It doesn’t need to be machine gun firing (part for the whole; “dangers in general”); or literally running towards it (hyperbole; “risking to get harmed”).
You might agree with their point, or disagree with it. However, “le ackshyually to le narwhal bacon’s knee, you’re instructed to take cover lol EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!!!” doesn’t address what they said at all. And, like, people get rubbed off the wrong way when others use those “ackshyually”.
Perfectly valid to fear being compelled to move toward danger.
But can we agree that: 1) saying “teaching you to run into machine fire” is negative tonally, and 2) you could make the quoted point illustratively, without phrasing it so reductively?
The most obvious read of the original line is “jarheads being sent to their deaths,” – they told me to, so I’m going to run into machine gun fire – which would obviously receive pushback.
And that’s saying nothing about the actual philosophies of how to deal with danger, vis a vis fleeing it or neutralizing it.