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Originally Posted by bubu
What greater good in saving his fellow ..?
Do you have any idea how stupid the whole soldier thing sounds?
The soldier goes to war on behalf of his country (his "leaders") and wages war for his "masters" ends and you say there's greater good in this?
What great good is there in the suppressing of weak countries ?
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I'm pretty sure you just took Neapolitan's post completely out of context. He was using an example in order to show that martyr's don't sacrifice themselves because of self-loathing, or because they want to die. Rather, they are martyred in the service of someone or something else. In our example, it's in relation to God.