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(11-06-2015, 05:09 AM)Caspar Wrote: But the fact remains that military service is essentially the art of killing, primarily anyway, and sex work is not, so I don't see how anyone could perceive getting killed or harmed as an intrinsic part of sex work, and a risk that should be accepted as part of the job.
There are a lot of people who work in the military who never kill anyone and, in fact, it's not part of their MOS to engage in combat at all. Aircraft mechanics, doctors, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, secretaries, reporters, the people who run the recreational sections, forest rangers (I'm not even joking - some bases have HUGE tracts of untouched forest), mechanics, gate guards, people who process documentation and never see deployment, Chaplains, finance/accounting people who track the money the military is using, HR people, quartermasters who make sure the right equipment gets to the right places, cooks, clothing/laundry repair techs, musicians, illustrators, public broadcasting (think anchors, but for military broadcasts), attorneys, firefighters, police officers, paralegals, computer techs, cable installers, linguists...
I mean I could go on.
The military is huge. My mother was in the Air Force and never served in a combat role. She was a secretary. My dad was never deployed to a combat zone, he was a cop. My brothers were both infantry in the Army and they both did tours in Afghanistan. But if you think they were heartless, or wanted to kill anyone, you're wrong. They joined the Army to honor my cousin who was killed in Iraq. The older one used to send regular letters home weeping for the children he met in Afghanistan because he couldn't do more, and it broke his heart to see little ones with so little.
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