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r3x29yz4a said:
I knew a guy who'd spent a year in Iraq for the National Guard. The US troops have quite a bit on base for "fun." They get DVDs, books, internet, and off-time on a secure base to relax. There's no reason to say that they "need" to enjoy the time in combat. They don't need levity on the combat field. In fact treating combat/killing like fun would more likely make them reckless because they'd lost sight of how serious their situation is.



I could use the same argument with material objects and longing for such things to be distracting from the situation at hand. Let your mind revolve around your job long enough and you can make a game of it. When you're trying to play games, you're playing to win trying to be better and better.


The analogy doesn't hold. Different jobs require different actions and allow for different levels of "fun." A policeman can't take his job like a game, can't put his feet up and just relax when he's supposed to be working, but an office worker can.
A soldier's job is always serious, same as a an Trauma Center doctor. Once they start to enjoy the bloody scenes around them and see it as "fun," then there's something wrong.

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