In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.
Edward Gibbon
The FEW, the proud, the Marines?
And fewer they become.
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Sodomy is indecent assault and battery. There is nothing loveable about crime. Now if the LGTBQ+ would take their flag to the frontlines and stop the war OK then they would become heroes. But sending other souls to hell is not normal.