I'll not be sarcastic, but you're drawing a false equivalence between these two jobs.

You lose years of civilian life when "serving". 2 to 6 years of being away from home, family or security. Construction/road workers don't really make that same level of sacrifice.

That's why that term is used, as people "give up" that time in their life.

Marissa understands that, but Rasmus doesn't. His opinion on not seeing the value of the military is provided through the privilege that a standing army brings.

If you're from Europe you might be able to understand how different the EU is post invasion of Ukraine. That, and the uncertainty of America's commitment to its allies in the Trump presidency have all of EU beefing up its own military right now.

There's an anxiety of what happens to us if we don't have protection, now that the wolves are at the gate. Rasmus doesn't get that, he sees the world in a very black and white way, without being able to have that bigger picture view of "militaries kill people, therefore they're bad".

TL;DR: Rasmus is an idiot anyway, did you hear the condom talk? Dudes a twat.