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Guys, I am costarican, we have more than 50 years with no army, maybe you know. I have only seen them in TV shows and CNN.
In the first grades our school teachers always say -and it is generalized idea-, that Costa Rica is different in central america (place of guerrillas, poverty and political corruption) because we had no army. So basically we fear soldiers, wars and armies. It is said that the public inversion went directly to health and education and we avoid some of the political problems the rest had.
Costaricans usually hate wars, and of course we don't see with good eyes soldiers. I have to say that in some way, my perspective of soldiers has changed favorably following the show, or at least it has questioned my believes. There is something extremely valuable in a soldiers career: the sacrifice for others.
This sacrifice of young good people needs to be for a really important cause. In the show the cause is the survival of the human specie but I am sure that wars do not always have such great cause to be fought..
Just IMHO,
Thanks!
Michael.
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RE: are soldiers good?
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Aug 9 2007, 1:00 PM EDT
That's an interesting perspective. It's impressive that Costa Rica has had no army for so long. I would think this is a good example for it's neighboring countries. I live is the US and unfortunately I see our military used to fight causes that don't have anything to do with defense or survival. Most of the time the military is used by those in power to pursue an agenda - to gain power, money, influence in the world, and things of that nature. Fighting for survival is one thing, but fighting for political or monetary advantage is despicable. The cool thing about BSG is that it shows the military on a personal level from the commanding officers down to the grunts and pilots. It also wrestles with the issues mentioned above even though they are fighting for survival. There are still disagreements and power struggles internally within both the humans and the cylons. It's certainly not a black and white, good and bad dichotomy. It shows the flaws that both sides make. This is like the real world. Many times no one is right and both sides are wrong.
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