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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Michael M who wrote (52759)8/22/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The young soldier is not an apt analogy. He comes from a society- there are people at home whom he wishes to defend- that is the way wars are sold to soldiers. At the very least they feel they are benefiting real people, now living, and helping to preserve a valuable (in their perception) social order.

In your hypo, society has been destroyed. There are two people left. Their descendents are not "real" people yet- and so are much less real that the people your worthy young soldier is willing to give his life for. You may not think removal in time is a big difference- but I think psychologically it is. If you ask a person to step in front of a train to save his or her child- I think many people would. If you ask them to do this to save an unborn grandchild I think the odds of anyone taking you up on this go way way down. Psychological immediacy is extremely important.
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