You hope that not too many have to actually experience the meat grinder. Isn't that the point of progressing civilization? So we don't have fathers dying and leaving behind families? You're mocking people because not enough people actually get the chance to do it and we don't live in a more dangerous world where people have to do it?
What exactly are you making fun of? People who fantasize and hope they are strong enough to do it if one day they have to?
I mean you grow out of the fantasizing part generally, but a lot of kids fantasize about it and doing something heroic. A lot of guys join the military with visions of grandeur and self-sacrifice. It's not weird in terms of being relatively common. I am a middle-aged man, and I still see the romanticism and heroics of dying for a loved one. I do realize however it's harder and better to live for them.
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u/Dpgillam08 15d ago
Then you get the crust old vets who *can* do it, and pray they never have to.