"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3FB3D0E0.4D53E4D@yahoo.co.jp...
> Bryce wrote:
>
> > "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> > news:3FB381A8.5472609F@yahoo.co.jp...
> > > Bryce wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> > > > news:3FB20727.D56E5132@yahoo.co.jp...
> > > > > Bryce wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Eric is missing the point that they made their own decisions.
> > > > >
> > > > > You're missing the point they aren't stupid, and there are
> > > > > people who don't have as many choices in life as you, to live in
> > > > > relative comfort and safety.
> > > >
> > > > To join the army, and then bitch about a war? What can you not call
> > stupid
> > > > about that?
> > >
> > > The fact that war is basically bad. Even a Rambo should not like war.
> > >
> > > It was the rainy season in Japan. We know what this is CERTAIN to
mean,
> > such
> > > as periods of miserable rain. You never complained, or even had
negative
> > > thoughts about it?
> > >
> > > Winter is coming. We know what this is CERTAIN to mean, such as
periods of
> > > cold in regions of Honshu and above. You will never complain or have
> > negative
> > > thoughts about it?
> > >
> > > You accept the possible outcome of each and every one of your
conscious
> > > choices, such as eating meat, using motor transport, or living and
working
> > > among smokers, and will take it without bitching?
> >
> > That is correct. If I've made the decision to do it, why should I bitch?
>
> So, if you get bowel cancer as a meat eater, you get into a car crash and
> become disabled, or better yet, are at the wheel of a car which kills
someone
> and go to prison; or get lung cancer because you picked up the habit or
> breathed second hand smoke but continued to stay around smokers instead of
> moving or quitting your job, you would not bitch about any of it, because
you
> made such decisions to take such risks yourself?
>
> And you never bitch about certainties like rain and cold weather?
>



No I wouldn't. Why? Did you read that in the Stars and Stripes as well?