By Linda Mains
What is honor in 2012? Does anyone really know what honor is anymore? It's funny to me, but some of the most dis-honorable people, that I have ever met, would constantly be throwing that word around, like Chinese fire-crackers. Some even get angry, when being confronted with all of their lies, because they will claim while standing in-front of you; "I'm honorable! Are you telling me that I'm not honorable?"
So is it honorable to fight in a war? Is it? I for one; am not really sure anymore, if "war" is such an honorable act? Are you? Look at what those marines did to those dead Taliban fighters? I believe that there is no honor in pissing on someones dead body...which must have been a giant blow to the moral of the Marines, since they are constantly priding themselves on just how "honorable" they are. My only question is; when you don't respect life, and are taught to destroy it...doesn't the simple "destruction of somebody's family member" automatically make anyone participating in that destruction "dishonorable?"
What I'm trying to say is; that people love throwing the word "honor" around like leaves to the wind. If your life style is questionable...then I just don't think, you should be using the word "honorable." Honor is reserved for those who live and act honorably! Killing is killing, and stealing is stealing, fighting is fighting...but can any of us do any of those things honorably? I don't think so? If you do; tell me how to do that, so I will understand how people whom are constantly telling the rest of us how honorable they think they are act...because, for the life of me, I don't and can't understand these people.
I get the honor your mother and father thing...but the dying for your country or a cause thing being honorable? I'm sorry; but I just don't understand it? I also don't think that dying for any reason is honorable. I'm going to tell you what I think dying for any forgettable war is; it's a "waste!" That person won't get to live or to experience a life, a life that was meant to be lived. Although, I think that governments and the mechanisms that grow empires, use the word "honor" to make men, give up the only thing that's too important to ever lose...which is their "life's!" Now I love walking down the street, and just living...so for anyone to tell me, that there could ever be any cause which would be honorable enough; to make me want to shoot at some man or woman. People whom I've never met, and then what if I accidentally kill an innocent child, or accidentally blow the lower part of that child's face off. I just for the live of me couldn't call any of those actions "honorable." Actions that I would have to live with for the rest of my life.
So what is honor in 2012? Is it bashing people on the internet? Is it threatening the life's of loved ones? Is it watching the homeless, and not caring? Is it talking trash about other people? The U.S reality is more like a Jerry Springer show, then anything else right now. So I really don't believe, with the way that our society is right now...that honor actually exists anymore. I wouldn't even know where to look for it, if it actually did exist somewhere, and wasn't just Nation building rhetoric, or rhetoric to make regime changes world wide. Although I really wish, that more of us actually knew what "honor" actually was, so that our young men and women wouldn't be so willing to die for forgettable wars and causes world wide.
So is it honorable to fight in a war? Is it? I for one; am not really sure anymore, if "war" is such an honorable act? Are you? Look at what those marines did to those dead Taliban fighters? I believe that there is no honor in pissing on someones dead body...which must have been a giant blow to the moral of the Marines, since they are constantly priding themselves on just how "honorable" they are. My only question is; when you don't respect life, and are taught to destroy it...doesn't the simple "destruction of somebody's family member" automatically make anyone participating in that destruction "dishonorable?"
What I'm trying to say is; that people love throwing the word "honor" around like leaves to the wind. If your life style is questionable...then I just don't think, you should be using the word "honorable." Honor is reserved for those who live and act honorably! Killing is killing, and stealing is stealing, fighting is fighting...but can any of us do any of those things honorably? I don't think so? If you do; tell me how to do that, so I will understand how people whom are constantly telling the rest of us how honorable they think they are act...because, for the life of me, I don't and can't understand these people.
I get the honor your mother and father thing...but the dying for your country or a cause thing being honorable? I'm sorry; but I just don't understand it? I also don't think that dying for any reason is honorable. I'm going to tell you what I think dying for any forgettable war is; it's a "waste!" That person won't get to live or to experience a life, a life that was meant to be lived. Although, I think that governments and the mechanisms that grow empires, use the word "honor" to make men, give up the only thing that's too important to ever lose...which is their "life's!" Now I love walking down the street, and just living...so for anyone to tell me, that there could ever be any cause which would be honorable enough; to make me want to shoot at some man or woman. People whom I've never met, and then what if I accidentally kill an innocent child, or accidentally blow the lower part of that child's face off. I just for the live of me couldn't call any of those actions "honorable." Actions that I would have to live with for the rest of my life.
So what is honor in 2012? Is it bashing people on the internet? Is it threatening the life's of loved ones? Is it watching the homeless, and not caring? Is it talking trash about other people? The U.S reality is more like a Jerry Springer show, then anything else right now. So I really don't believe, with the way that our society is right now...that honor actually exists anymore. I wouldn't even know where to look for it, if it actually did exist somewhere, and wasn't just Nation building rhetoric, or rhetoric to make regime changes world wide. Although I really wish, that more of us actually knew what "honor" actually was, so that our young men and women wouldn't be so willing to die for forgettable wars and causes world wide.
