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2. I do better than support conscientious objection. I oppose the draft.

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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 04:14 AM

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Conscientious Objection...do you approve or not? and when? [View all] Ken Burch Nov 2012 OP

I think YES, providing in all of ones life, they refuse to pick up a gun graham4anything Nov 2012 #1

So all conflicts are equal? wickerwoman Nov 2012 #4

I did not pick that answer you are implying graham4anything Nov 2012 #6

But the problem with saying wickerwoman Nov 2012 #12

My two cents on taking human life is that there are really only two types of killing. Selatius Nov 2012 #7

IMHO a drone on Hitler before the escalation would have stopped it then and there graham4anything Nov 2012 #52

Absolute Pacifism - Graham4Anything, what you suggest is immoral Democratopia Nov 2012 #9

Change we can believe in? LP2K12 Nov 2012 #14

Absolute wrong glacierbay Nov 2012 #24

I am good with that quaker bill Nov 2012 #34

I do better than support conscientious objection. I oppose the draft. JVS Nov 2012 #2

When Republicans are in power Fumesucker Nov 2012 #3

Uh....does the word "Vietnam" mean anything to you? Ken Burch Nov 2012 #18

Beat me to it. nt. glacierbay Nov 2012 #25

That's ancient history Fumesucker Nov 2012 #47

Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Libya, etc. Angleae Nov 2012 #46

Et tu, Brute? Fumesucker Nov 2012 #49

Without a draft, how is CO at all relevant to anything? I assume that there is some point to Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #5

There is mandatory selective service registration for males Ms. Toad Nov 2012 #30

I'll support CO for those forced to serve, not for those that volunteered. Angleae Nov 2012 #8

Once you sign up, CO status is over quaker bill Nov 2012 #35

That hasn't stopped people from trying. Angleae Nov 2012 #44

Unfortunately quaker bill Nov 2012 #53

Other. It's irrelevant unless there is a draft. MineralMan Nov 2012 #10

What if you joined, saw the reality fo war(after joining voluntarily)and THEN decided Ken Burch Nov 2012 #19

I doubt that's a common occurrence, frankly. MineralMan Nov 2012 #21

You're assuming that everyone who joins the military Ken Burch Nov 2012 #23

Yah, well, I was just 19 when I joined the USAF in 1965. MineralMan Nov 2012 #26

I'm 51. I remember being 18. Ken Burch Nov 2012 #38

We actually have an economic draft. Ms. Toad Nov 2012 #31

My point exactly. Excellent post, Ms T. Ken Burch Nov 2012 #40

I support the right of conscience-based objection to all wars. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #11

The law has no sympathy either quaker bill Nov 2012 #36

The DOD allows for discharges based on conscientious objection even after having been deployed. Agony Nov 2012 #45

People change in the course of their lives flamingdem Nov 2012 #13

Approve ismnotwasm Nov 2012 #15

I oppose CO status unless we were cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #16

You're right ismnotwasm Nov 2012 #17

I wanted to explain what I meant by "Conscientious Objection to particular wars" Ken Burch Nov 2012 #20

It's a difficult question. MineralMan Nov 2012 #22

Forcing people to murder their fellow humans is barbarism. Tierra_y_Libertad Nov 2012 #27

Vietnam oberle Nov 2012 #28

Other Friends took alternate service quaker bill Nov 2012 #37

A lot of those refusing to join wars would gladly do that, I suspect. Ken Burch Nov 2012 #41

I have in my past had lunch quaker bill Nov 2012 #54

I knew a couple of guys who were COs and served as combat medics in Vietnam pinboy3niner Nov 2012 #50

I am a member of a religious denomination which conscientiously objects Cairycat Nov 2012 #29

Me, too, cairycat. Blue_In_AK Nov 2012 #33

Absolutely. Blue_In_AK Nov 2012 #32

I have trained in and counseled others in how to establish a legal claim to CO status quaker bill Nov 2012 #39

I will fight to defend my home, my family, and my nation. Xithras Nov 2012 #42

If you volunteer for the military Aerows Nov 2012 #43

Why can't a person have a change of conscience based on their experience while serving in military? Agony Nov 2012 #48

Some people find it threatening, apparently, to accept the idea Ken Burch Nov 2012 #51