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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls
Just to clarify, your position is: I feel differently about certain societal norms, therefore I take the events which helped mold those norms for granted? Have you ever considered that I don't take them for granted and just came to a different conclusion about what the appropriate response should be?
What is my mentality exactly? I'd never mistreat them, but my reason for doing so is not because they are vets. I wouldn't mistreat them because they are human beings. I wouldn't be a dick to Hitler either. I don't believe in treating people poorly. Those that I don't like I won't go out of my way to help or interact with, but I'd never treat anyone differently from the expectations I hold myself accountable to when interacting with society. (That's a lie actually, sometimes I'm a dick online when playing video games, but it's mostly caused by people playing team games and then refusing to work cooperatively or intentionally throwing games in competitive modes/piss poor selfish attitudes. I do try to keep myself calm and collected, but sometimes I just hate people on the internet.)
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I don't think you understood my first statement. What alternatives do you think should have been taking for all the wars and conflicts thar have happened throughout history besides just not engaging in a conflict to begin with?
People with your mentality tend to act rudely towards those that do ask for military discounts. You might not do yourself but when they think service members don't deserve a discount they usually create a scene about it.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Nobody's talking about pensions. They're talking about senior citizen drinks at Burger King, which is kind of pointless and doesn't particularly help anyone. I'm all for Medicaid and Social Security and more services for ex-military, but a discount for a movie is basically just a supposed reward from a company that doesn't even care.
A reward should be for someone worth rewarding, and while plenty of the elderly and the military are perfectly non-****ty people as far as people go, you never know which one's a sex offender, murderer, neo-Nazi, or dog fighter. The government owes the military for being their service, and the elderly for paying so much into the system, but a discount from a business should go to people who aren't scum.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
What if the average lifespan became 110? It would be difficult to continue starting financial assistance for the elderly at 65.
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The retirement age has already shifted slightly so I am sure if the average lifespan becomes 110. It will be shifted even more.
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Originally Posted by elphenor
I wouldn't assume it would be mostly the impoverished especially since you have to have a high school diploma to enlist
But it's a disproportionate amount along with the great number of middle class who find they have no opportunity post high school
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If you are lumping the two together then fine but there is a large number of middle class that end up enlisting.