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human
I don't think members of the military should be treated differently than anybody else. CMV

I think it's just another career choice. I don't think they are "fighting" for anybody's freedom or peace. There's a lot of other jobs that require that people risk their lives to do it and they aren't given any special treatment and they shouldn't.
gpt
There's the slightly less noble, but pragmatic, reason for treating them differently which is that we need at least a small class of people who will willingly go stand in front of bullets, and what better way to convince someone to do that than to tell them its "honorable"?  If it was treated like a normal job you might have to try hard to find people willing to do it, but tell someone that they're the next best thing to superman if they do it, and they'll practically do it for free.