Re: In the event of a draft
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"Love it or leave it" type arguments are glib and unacceptable. I can be born here and have values and interests that conflict with those of the state. That doesn't mean I have to leave. On the contrary, if the state's values are in conflict with too many people living within its borders, I think it's the state that ought to go, not the people.
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I didn't make a total "love it or leave it" argument, as I left room for both situations where one morally believes the nation is totally in the wrong in an individual issue, and for serving in non-combat capacities. But if one is just unwilling in general to fight, overseas or not, and not because one truly believes the fight to be immoral, and one is in the minority in a democratic country, then leaving when refusing to fight is the honorable thing to do.
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