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Originally Posted by Nanners52674
That's great that it's lower than another suicide rate. But guess what it's generally a bad thing for there to be a suicide rate in general. Yes it's unavoidable but it's not a positive statistic.
I don't care what suicide rate the military's is lower than. It could be lower than 400 other demographic groups rates. The POINT is that IT HAS GONE UP! If thats not a simple enough statement there are MORE suicides amongst military now than a year ago.
It should NOT matter who the group is or where their statistic measures up. What should matter is that its increased.
I don't understand how a person can argue that an increase in a suicide rate is NOT a bad or alarming thing????  |
It's bad, but not alarming. Because of a recruiting push, the army is increasingly made up of poorer young men, one of the most suicide prone groups in America. And maybe its just me, but it seems logical that any time the Army is fighting a war, the suicide rate is going to go up. It isn't that they are sad and want to come home because they don't support this war anymore, it's that in war you are going to see things that some peoples' minds can't easily handle that just might push them over the edge. I just don't see any other trend that would be logical.
The suicide rate has gone up because the Army is active now instead of just training and being ready. Guys who were at home are now half a world away. That will tend to be depressing. People who have never been exposed to carnage or had to kill someone before have now. That's depressing too. You wish it wouldn't happen, but the fact of the matter is that when the Army starts actually fighting, suicide rates are going to go up. It isn't because they are fighting an unpopular war or because the Army has low morale that it rose, it's because the very nature of actually fighting a war puts the brain under unique stresses that it's never had to handle before - and some people can't handle them on top of everything else going on in their lives.