The title speaks for itself people. Would you send you kid into a war that you know they wouldn’t come back from? And if you did, would you blame the president? When in reality you should be blaming yourself, but if you wanted to get technical you can even blame the president! Because of his persuasion you wanted to save a country that didn’t even need saving.
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Not a parent's choice23% Voted for by thinking, Sssid, pnktrky.
I would trust that no parent would presume they have the power, or right to influence anyone to go to war. I would hope that a person going to war would be old enough and mature enough to make up their own mind if not I would consider it a violation. As far as blame anyone who promotes armed conflict as a solution must share blame for it's outcome.
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how can we be sending our children to war?15% Voted for by Scrap, Kazrith.
truthfully, we have no say if they want to join the army or not. do you think that you would have liked your parents to come up to you and say “You cant go into the proffesson because i might have beary you.” i know i wouldnt like it if my parents said i couldn’t become a cop or a firefighter or a doctor less i get into an accident. now a days we cannot just send kids off to war, it goes against that freedom act and by then kids will do whatever they want because they can. trust me, i’m a kid.
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No, of course not15% Voted for by Scrap, Kazrith.
“And if you did, would you blame the president? When in reality you should be blaming yourself”
Why would I have to blame myself? I don’t see myself starting any wars…Anyways…
No, no I would not. Even if it was a war I believed in and supported (which probably isn’t too likely) I would not send my kid. Even if it was a war I was fighting in and leading or something I’d want my kid to STAY HOME. S/He’s my kid for goodness sakes. BUT, if s/he wanted to go, that’s his/her decision. I would debate against it as best I could, but sadly there would really be little I could do in the long run.
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out of fairness...Voted for by ohsweetie2788.
well since i know others have to send their children off to war it is not fair to them or anyone else to not send my children. it would be hard and i wouldn’t want to but i would out of complete fairness…i am glad i will never be in that situation…
Ash
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Not to a war of greed and lust.Voted for by Mujtaba H Zaidi.
If war is holy, i will participate myself and will ask my children to go to war. But if it is merely a war of greed and lust like Iraq-war, I will never never send even my enemy to it. Such wars, like on innocent Iraqi people is only and only the outcome of filthy and greedy dog bush, who is the responsible for massacring innocent people…!!!!
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In realityVoted for by Energizer Bunny.
Dying is a part of living. War is a part of peace. Whether a family member or a certain age group participate in these might be interesting to discuss but in the end it will not change the inevitable.
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ThinkingVoted for by Annabel Lee.
You can use the war that we have still going on now as an example. How many parents, cousins, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters are still out there? Wasn’t it you who wanted them to do something with their life knowing full well that they’d be going into combat? But ya know, it’d kind of make you look bad because you were only saving your own ass. Yeah, send your kid to war, have that 50/50 chance float around your mind while he or she is shooting at innocent bystanders. I’d have to be honest, if it meant saving the world, yeah, I’d encourage them.
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October 30, 2006
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