Gen Z: The military ain't for me (video)

Jamesons Travels, 8/19/23; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Gen Z explains why they won’t join the U.S. military: NOT what you think, but worse

Go to war, and one day we'll say, "F U for your..."

(Jamesons Travels) Gen Z teen explains why they are not joining. It's not what one would think...because it's worse.

[Actually, it's better. The kids are going to be all right. They don't want to join a patriarchal rape camp system of oppression that leads to so much unskillful karma that one would be working it out for generations and millennia to come. Killing for empire, oil, control, and world domination by transnational corporations? H to the no.

Today's military is pro-LGBTQIA+. Come
rape and harass and get it from comrades.

Come back a Republican alcoholic PTSD-sufferer, broken and ignored at by the V.A., dropped into homelessness, addicted, anxious, all messed up and looking forward to a pittance for "serving" in the Chair Force droning innocents then labelling them "combatants"? The U.S. military-industrial complex has a saying, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It's by FEAR and goes, "Let's have a war so you can go die." Anyone who thinks YOU should join this man's army ought to go join themselves, the cowards.

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Why is it bad karma to battle others?

Ven. Thanissaro (trans.) accesstoinsight.org; edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

KARMA: It's everywhere you're going to be.

One needs a livelihood (a way of earning a living or way of getting the funds to survive independently, most commonly a job, but not necessarily). 

Knowing that, the Buddha advises humans to avoid unskillful karma (unwholesome deeds that lead, when their results finally ripen whether in this life or a future life, to suffering).

He defined "wrong livelihood" for people. "A follower [of my advice] abstains from five types of business. What are those five? Trade in weapons, trade in human beings, trade in meat, trade in intoxicants, and trade in poisons" (AN 5.177).

Considering the military to become a soldier? It would be good to reconsider.

SUTRA: If I die in battle, I go to [Valhalla], right?

I killed all those people for nothing, out of ignorance, fear, and hatred. Now I'm going to...

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Wait, Valhalla is a hell not a heaven?

The headman Yodhajiva went to the Blessed One [the Buddha], greeted him with respect, and sat respectfully to one side. Sitting there, he asked:

"Venerable sir, I have heard that it is passed down by the ancient teaching lineage of warriors that 'When a warrior strives and exerts himself in battle, if others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting himself in battle then, with the breakup of the body after death, he is reborn in the company of devas (shining ones) slain in battle.' What does the Blessed One have to say about that?"

"Enough, headman, set that question aside. Do not ask it." But a second time...and a third time the headman Yodhajiva asked it... 'What does the Blessed One have to say about that?"

"Headman, apparently, I am unable to get around it by saying, 'Enough, headman, set that question aside. Do not ask it.' So I will answer directly:

"When a warrior strives and exerts himself in battle, his mind is already seized, debased, and misdirected by the thought, 'May these beings be struck down or slaughtered, annihilated, destroyed. May they not exist.'

"If others then strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting himself in battle then, with the breakup of the body after death, he is reborn in a hell called the Realm of Those Slain in Battle.

"But if he holds such a view as, 'When a warrior strives and exerts himself in battle, if others strike him down and slay him while he is striving and exerting himself in battle then, with the breakup of the body after death, he is reborn in the company of devas slain in battle,' that is a wrong view.

"Now truthfully I say, there are two destinations for a person with wrong view, hell or the animal realm."

How could I have been so dumb to believe that?

When this was said, the headman Yodhajiva began to sob and he burst into tears.

[The Blessed One said:] "That is what I could not get around by saying, 'Headman, enough, set that aside. Do not ask it.'" 

[Yodhajiva:] "Venerable sir, I'm not crying because of what the Blessed One said to me but because for so long time I have been deceived, cheated, and fooled by that ancient teaching lineage of warriors who said that'" (SN 42.3).