Wɪsᴇᴍᴀɴ Dᴏᴇ@d4thHand
this guy just casually uttered words that would have been unthinkable to any previous generation of men.
imagine a soldier saying it, imagine a spy saying it. just imagine.
throughout history, do you know how many men have faced the brutal choice between family and country? how many soldiers have missed the births of their children while fighting for their nation.
how many have watched from afar while others buried their parents without being able to attend the funeral cus they understood that duty came first.
just the other day, i was at the barracks when three soldiers lost their fathers. none of them requested leave to attend the burial cus they understood what duty demanded.
this just sums up modern male, in a nutshell
they has been so thoroughly stripped of martial virtue, so saturated with therapeutic sentimentality, and so completely deconstructed by the acids of modernity that they can no longer distinguish between being present and being honorable.
no matter how Doku phrases this shite, he is choosing his feelings over his duty.
all his country asked for was only a few days.
a few days of possible absence from a birth that humanity has successfully managed without fathers present for the vast majority of history
it's not like this is war that there is a possibility he might die, it is a tournament.
he would return home soon.
and yet even at these dramatically reduced stakes, he still cannot sacrifice a few days for his country.
this reveals how poor his soul is.
cus a man who cannot subordinate his immediate emotional desires to something greater than himself - even temporarily - has already lost the essential quality that made men worthy of respect across every civilization that came before us.