There's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world.
When you're a soldier you don't really have agency over the morality of what you do, aside from being technically allowed to protest against committing war crimes.
So no.
You just generally hope the government of the military you're serving is makes the moral call.
What you're thinking of is a violent psychotic vigilante.
That not how any of that works.
No, there isn't. At all. What so ever. A soldier is merely a tool by a state that may or may not (and historically NOT) have good intentions.
A soldier is first and foremost instructed to FOLLOW ORDERS. Not because of some nefarious plot to use people, but because doubt on the battlefield can mean a weakness ripe for exploitation, and can introduce delays that mean defeat.
A soldier is a TOOL, not a freedom fighter.
Interesting myopic & binary definitions.
Lol.
Shows how little you know.
In the military, shit isn't up for debate. You do as you're told. It is very much black and white.
(Well, from some exceptions we don't need to get to because you'd never reach the level where one has to utilise their own brain.)
edit this excludes warcrimes obviously. ALL soldiers EVERYWHERE are mandated to refuse orders that would lead to warcrimes. (how they're taught what are warcrimes is a different matter entirely)
Tell me you've never studied history without telling me you've never studied history.
Myopic indeed, you know nothing about being a soldier. Go play GI Joe somewhere else. Pathetic loser.
There has never been a time where soldiers were fighting for freedom. They fight for their master.
I mean, there are soldiers fighting for their countries' safety today! They're just not the ones thousands of kilometres away from home (they might be piloting drones on the other side of the world, I guess, lol), of course.
What do you consider a soldier to be? Because I have a feeling you are using a very narrow definition that excludes some of the examples I would make.
Maybe not in our lifetime, but you're really going to say ww2 wasn't to stop evil? What about the civil war?
Interesting..
What?
+1 actually a shower thought
If you're one of those brave dudes trying to hit aircraft with old rocket launchers while sprinting in your flipflops, you're almost certainly putting down evil, sure.
This post screams of insecurity and sadness on the part of OP.
I think OP romanticizes the idea of being a soldier like a Hollywood actor.
OP has never served.