Originally Posted by Norrin Radd

You're suggesting that you have to feel something more for a random, unknown human being that you've never interacted with, never would interact with, never will interact with, just because they happened to be a product of sexual intercourse on the same piece of land as you?

I disagree.

I care about the people I care about. I literally couldn't care less about anyone else and it's pretentious and hypocritical to say otherwise. If you care about a soldier, you should care about the Iraqi children blown to smithereens by cruise missiles in the name of "freedom" and "liberation".

They aren't protecting you from anything. The very fact that you still feel these soldiers are currently protecting you is a little misguided, I feel. Terrorism can and still will happen, regardless of Afghan occupation or not. Them being there isn't going to stop someone blowing something up in America.

If you're going to "respect the dead", then say a prayer or be sad for everyone who has lost someone each day. Don't single something out because you saw it on the news or it was made aware to you. You wouldn't have cared had you not known.