Not sure why I am answering Ms taken since you have taken to answering for me...however, it appears to me that you are guilty of exactly what you are accusing me of. The following came to mind when I read your comment:

And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves
lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't
talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that
wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the
backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a
punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain
myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of th[b]...

Not sure why I am answering Ms taken since you have taken to answering for me...however, it appears to me that you are guilty of exactly what you are accusing me of. The following came to mind when I read your comment:

And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves
lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't
talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that
wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the
backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a
punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain
myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very
freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I
provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your
way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post.

I say every single one of them, was a conduit to change. Unless you wish to break laws yourself, then peaceful protest must be your only weapon. Or do you suggest people just give up and be *owned*?

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established shoul...

I say every single one of them, was a conduit to change. Unless you wish to break laws yourself, then peaceful protest must be your only weapon. Or do you suggest people just give up and be *owned*?

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.