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The numbers are staggering: 11,407 U.S. soldiers have been discharged for drug abuse after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan; 6,159 have been kicked out for "discreditable incidents"; 6,436 have been discharged for "commission of a serious offense"; 2,246 have been discharged for "the good of the service"; and 3,365 have been discharged for "personality disorder," according to Pentagon data I obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Among those dishonorably discharged after honorably serving in Iraq is Specialist Shaun Manuel who returned from a tour in Iraq to find his newborn son dead of a rare genetic disease called Muscular Spinal Atrophy. Manuel said the situation was made even more painful when his superiors ordered him to begin training for a second tour in Iraq.
If someone can see into the future accurately enough to allow time and energy sufficient to avoid something horrible, then, what is left but to avoid it? What inspires a person to choose the greater of two evils – on purpose?
See? I mean - if two roads ahead are both bad (horrible) and one road is more difficult (but less horrible), then, why would someone choose the worst (even if it is harder)?
Possible answer:
Someone cannot see into the future accruately enough to allow time and energy suffcent to avoid the less difficult and horrible path; because - the more difficult path does not yet appear to be less horrible in the end.
Is it more or less difficult to reject torture and mass murder for profit when so many other people are led to those actions by legal criminals?