• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    19 days ago

    Am I? Because, again, all the adults have to do is not allow the kids to fight. That’s it. The kids aren’t pushing past them and raiding the weapons lockers. They’re being forcibly conscripted.

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      19 days ago

      Again, what force? They’re being recruited, not forced. I know what you said about them being young and impressionable, but no happy kid would rather go fight in a war instead of playing with their friends. So again, ask yourself here. Why do they feel the need to?

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        19 days ago

        Yes, just like kids are “being recruited” for sex work.

        Yet again, children’s brains are not developed enough to understand the consequences of what they are doing. They are being forced to fight because they are being manipulated into doing it. That’s why they “feel the need to.”

        It’s like you don’t even know what children are.

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          19 days ago

          Question then. If I were to go to a group of young, impressionable kids in a developed country where they are living comfortably, how successful would I be in recruiting them to be in a militia?

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            19 days ago

            Why on Earth would you think I know the answer to that? Do you think I’ve ever seen it happen? Experienced it?

            Considering the number of young, impressionable kids who live comfortably that join cults, I’m guessing a good salesperson could be pretty successful at it.

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              19 days ago

              And what kind of people do cults tend to attract? People that are in happy lives? Or the ones that are in desperate situations?

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                  19 days ago

                  This person was literally a drug addict who got kicked out of her house by her parents. She was homeless when she got recruited. This only reinforces my point.

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                    19 days ago

                    Your point:

                    If I were to go to a group of young, impressionable kids in a developed country where they are living comfortably, how successful would I be in recruiting them to be in a militia?

                    Apparently you answered your own question now: yes, those kids in that developed country would be successfully recruited to be in a militia. Or at least do a militia’s bidding.

                    Nah, never happens in America.

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rittenhouse

                    And do tell me about Kyle’s tragic upbringing full of hardship.