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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