Requirements to be a Good Soldier

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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by Speaker to Animals » Sat Dec 30, 2017 9:29 am

Martin Hash wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:What happens when your robots lose and the enemy robots come for you?
Didn't you watch "Terminator"? The robots win.

Men who would make good soldiers, instead of just submitting to death, would fight.

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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by Martin Hash » Sat Dec 30, 2017 10:12 am

Speaker to Animals wrote:
Martin Hash wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:What happens when your robots lose and the enemy robots come for you?
Didn't you watch "Terminator"? The robots win.

Men who would make good soldiers, instead of just submitting to death, would fight.
They would? Not though most of history. I guess it's just Alpha men like you? Those cowardly Jews.
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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by Speaker to Animals » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:03 am

Martin Hash wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:
Martin Hash wrote: Didn't you watch "Terminator"? The robots win.

Men who would make good soldiers, instead of just submitting to death, would fight.
They would? Not though most of history. I guess it's just Alpha men like you? Those cowardly Jews.

I am not an alpha. If this were the Paleolithic, or some frontier culture like the Norse, I'd be one of the alpha's troops.

There are men who just give up and die, and men who fight. What makes a good soldier is the latter group. You can train a man to fight. You cannot train him into a better nature, however.

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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by C-Mag » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:06 am

Marty, I've been curious for some time why you think you have to be a Sociopath to be a good Soldier ?
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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by heydaralon » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:24 am

I'm also skeptical of the sociopathic requirement. Think of all the good armies in history:

Was Hannibal's effective army comprised of sociopaths?
What about Caesar's?
Napoleon's?
Patton's?
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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by C-Mag » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:39 am

heydaralon wrote:I'm also skeptical of the sociopathic requirement. Think of all the good armies in history:

Was Hannibal's effective army comprised of sociopaths?
What about Caesar's?
Napoleon's?
Patton's?

Well, during my time as a Soldier I considered my self a Good Soldier, but I didn't consider myself a Sociopath. So, Marty makes me think that maybe I wasn't doing the Soldier thing correctly. I feel like I have a conscience, but maybe I don't, or I'm just a bad Soldier and I have a conscience. :? I'm suddenly so insecure ;)
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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by Martin Hash » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:42 am

Okay, tell me about one of the people you killed. How’d it happen? What did you feel like afterward?
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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by heydaralon » Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:45 am

Martin are you trying to find the requirements to be a good soldier to solve your "Byzantine General Problem?"

A major problem the Byzantine generals had was the poor craftsmanship of the Constantinople walls. Not really sure if the soldiers could have fixed that, you would need construction workers and mason more likely.
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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by C-Mag » Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:36 pm

Martin Hash wrote:Okay, tell me about one of the people you killed. How’d it happen? What did you feel like afterward?
I haven't killed anyone, that I know of.
My specifics should not matter, you have made a blanket statement of qualifications. So clearly you have wisdom and experience to talk about this.................. Polymath me Hash, I need enlightenment.
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Re: Requirements to be a Good Soldier

Post by Martin Hash » Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:29 pm

C-Mag wrote:
Martin Hash wrote:Okay, tell me about one of the people you killed. How’d it happen? What did you feel like afterward?
I haven't killed anyone, that I know of.
My specifics should not matter, you have made a blanket statement of qualifications. So clearly you have wisdom and experience to talk about this.................. Polymath me Hash, I need enlightenment.
Soldiers are for killing, it doesn't make any difference how many potatoes you peeled. If you kill for a living, sociopaths rule.
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