And like so many other times in history I see that the best way to fight a "hivemind" is to join with a bunch of other people who think the same ideas in a group led by someone else. Sure sticking it to the man with that mindset.
As much as I think it's inherently obvious that saying everyone in any group is (insert adjective here... or noun in hero's case, I guess) is a ridiculous concept, I find groups like this one to be particularly distasteful. I have some pretty major philosophical differences with the army of the country I live and with basically every army everywhere, but I have to figure if these people just wanted to shoot bitches they'd stay home and play Call of Duty. Whether or not I agree with them, or with why my government is sending them to fight, these people are risking their lives to at least attempt to make things better for we civilians. I find groups like that one(and really that general mindset) to be pretty immature, and I can't imagine too many of those fifteen thousand people would be too willing to take up arms themselves if needed. Amazing how people criticize things they're unwilling to do themselves.
I think I should probably add that I'm sure a majority of the people in that group are in it largely because they don't think there should be any wars anywhere, which is great, and I would wager nearly everyone everywhere in the entire world who isn't directly profiting from war would agree with that statement. However, I think it kind of goes back to the concept of being "immature" I mentioned before - I think it is incredibly myopic and at best foolish to think that we could just lay down our arms and the world would be any better off(or at least, the situation of the now defenseless country would be better off). I'd certainly prefer for combat to cease to be, but it's awfully impractical to expect it to be so by some force of magic - war is a reality for the foreseeable future and for the entirety of humanity's past.
Bolded the main points I agree with here. He has a point. If every soldier only just wanted to shoot people, they could stay home and play video games. Very few people who join the army join because they get to headshot someone. They join because someone needs to protect their country and the civilians in said country from threats. They join to fight for those who can't, and for those who won't.
The next point, the one with people criticizing others of joining the army, when they won't. That ties in to what I was saying above. They fight for those who can't, and for those who won't. So, while you may be here criticizing them, they're over there fighting to keep you safe and secure, whether you like it or not. They are fighting for you, someone they don't even know, while you're here criticizing them for doing what you won't, but someone has to do, so, I find it in incredibly bad taste that you would criticize them.
Everyone who doesn't make money off of going to war wants war to stop. But, in order to stop war, we can't just simply stop fighting. It will take much more than throwing your gun in a river and walking away. Sure, maybe you will stop fighting, but there's no guarantee the guy you were shooting at will do the same. In order for world peace to ever happen, everyone in the world will all need to agree with everyone else. This is incredibly hard to achieve. Sure, maybe one day peace will be achieved, but for now and in the near future, war is a way of life. It's hard to accept, but, it is true. War is part of human nature, and it always has been. You can't just get rid of that by simply walking away from a conflict. Do you remember Vietnam? You Americans just walked away from them, saying you "won" the war, when the only thing you did was decide the war was a stupid idea, so you left them to fend for themselves. I only use this to prove that simply walking away from conflict doesn't get rid of it.
As for the actual topic, not all soldiers may be heroes, but a damn good number of them are. Don't criticize them for doing something you won't, and is necessary.
