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Originally posted by vivalarevolution
Not only would I fight for my country.I would Kill for my country. With a bloody psychopathic army smile on My face.
Originally posted by sepermeru
reply to post by TinfoilTP
Yes, as I said, I would very much expect to be tortured and killed for refusing to fight for a tyrant. I wouldn't consider that the cowardly option, would you? Seems to me that deciding to follow orders out of fear for personal safety is the obvious cowardly option there.
If you were drafted into World War III, would you fight?
Originally posted by sepermeru
reply to post by TinfoilTP
Any leader who ordered me to go to war against my will would be by definition a tyrant. The involuntary draft is tyrannical -- how am I to know what the leader's true motivations for ordering me to kill his enemies are? '
How the heck does that square with valuing freedom from government? I can hardly think of a more direct and serious way for the government to take away someone's freedom than to give an order to kill in its name or be killed by its agents. As I said, I'm far from being a pacifist, and in many situations, I would absolutely kill to save innocent people however I could. But if the leader puts a gun in my hands, I will point it at my own head before I ever point it at any human being just because the leader ordered me to. Hell no.
If there was a war on, and fighting for it was just and right, I wouldn't have to be drafted. I wouldn't join any military, but I would fight, of course I would. I will be the one who decides when that time has come -- no one else, and certainly not a politician I already know to be a corrupt, greedy liar.edit on 13-4-2011 by sepermeru because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SonicInfinity
I know every country doesn't have the draft system, but let's say WWIII starts and your country starts up a draft, forcing you to go fight. Would you serve your country, or would you draft dodge?
Personally, I'm not sure what I'd do. Draft dodging sounds better than serving the corporate elite and murdering my fellow man, but I don't have much knowledge of places I could hide until I sneak into another country, so I might be one of those people who would go to war just to die.