> > There are many reasons. To prove that you are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the protection of your country, to protect your country, so we have a disciplined society. There are many reasons.
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> Protecting your country is a good thing, but as has been talked about before, a country needs more than an army to protect itself. Even at its most basic, it needs people to organise the troops and to manufacture the weapons. It needs people to get the materials for those manufacturers. It needs people to handle the business of weapon manufacture. It needs people to govern those businesses. The tree expands exponentially from here, and we've only talked about making guns.
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> As for your first point, dying for your country is not a benefit to it. The will to protect your country is grand, the will to sacrifice yourself for it is self-defeating.


*Pointlessly* dying for your country will not benefit it. Sneaking deep into enemy territory and sabotaging a biological weapons factory sacrificing yourself for your country, will benefit it. Have you seen Air Force One? (The movie). The president is going to get killed, but the pilot sacrifices himself and flies his plane into the course of the missle. In a similar situation, sacrificing yourself *does* benefit your country.

-Gort "Willing to sacrifice himself to protect his country and freedom" Man64