respect for life

Nakia 2022-04-19 09:03:13

This is a movie that does not attract attention, and the plot that can be summed up in one sentence is even more lackluster. But it was it that plucked the softest string in my heart. That is respect for life.

After staying in China for 23 years, I have never understood why so many people in foreign countries are against the death penalty. It is only now that they realize that because life is sacred and inviolable, they respect life. He could surrender when American soldiers were besieged, and he was still considered a hero. In China, that is a traitor, a coward. This film is undoubtedly a textbook showing the differences between Chinese and Western cultures. Western education is: freedom, equality, independence. No one will make you give anything to your country. Achieving self-worth in life is the ultimate goal that everyone pursues. In contrast to China, we have been indoctrinated from the bottom up that the party is the country, and the interests of the country are paramount. Individual sacrifices for the collective are well deserved. When we see others willingly or compelled to sacrifice for our country, our hearts are only indifferent.

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Taking Chance quotes

  • 1st Lt. Dan Robertson (Chance Phelp's platoon commander): [voiceover, from his 09 April 2004 letter to the Phelps family] It's ironic, but I am certain that if the world had more men like Chance Phelps, there wouldn't be a need for a Marine Corps.

  • LtCol Mike Strobl: [voiceover] Chance Phelps was wearing his St. Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I watched them carry him the final fifteen yards. I felt that as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. When they put him down in his grave, he'd stopped moving. I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died. But today, I miss him.