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[theweaselking]

As more and more Americans are learning, you can't trust military recruiters. THEY LIE. They are looking to get warm bodies for the machine, and they really don't give a shit about you except as a number towards their quota.

In this case, the contract changed between the months of discussion and pursuasion and the final signing. The Marine recruit was told that it was just details, and everything he'd been promised was still true, and no, there wasn't time to read it or review it with his parents or lawyer. Just trust the recruiter, the recruiter is your friend. Sign the contract.

Dumb of him? Yes. He's 18, "dumb" is par for the course, and he's got a supposedly trustworthy person from a supposedly trustworthy organisation who's spent *months* convincing him that they are good friends worthy of each other's trust.

Comments

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Military personnel should have more personal honor than that.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

While I'm usually hesitant about the use of the s-word, my gut response is that *anyone* should have more personal honor than that.

Mind you, I suppose it's a matter of personal honour to be willing to sacrifice your self-respect and other people's plans for what you identify as the greater good, even if in this case the "greater good" is apparently being defined as shovelling more warm bodies into uniforms.

(Honour, upon reflection, is vastly over-rated, resulting as it so often does in people getting a stick up their ass and regarding other human beings as an impediment to principles. I think I prefer integrity.)

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

One definition of "honor" (you Canadians and your silly spellings };-]) is "Principled uprightness of character; personal integrity", so, I think that you and I are basically agreeing.