Worth Fighting For

Joe believes that nothing is worth fighting for. He goes on a tangent about how nothing is worth more than your life. He thinks that if you lose your life, the thing you were fighting for wasn’t worth it. Recruiters always drop the words democracy, independence, and liberty. But Joe says they are just words, and why fight for words? If people fight, they should fight for their loved ones, but not to the their death.
When someone is going to die, they think about their family and friends, not about how they won’t die in vain because they are fighting for something. Joe says that it’s not cowardly to not want to die.
The only thing that Joe thinks is worth fighting for is one’s own life. If you fight for a cause, but die during the fight, you will never get to have the benefits of the win, because you’re dead. He thinks about how men who go to war don’t really know what they are fighting for. Joe wants just one perfect answer of why to go to war, and he can’t find one. He wants to know the reason to go to war, so he can see if he’s gained it. Joe considers him as close to death as one can get, and he has lost so much. He wants to know what he has gained.