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    Do you think fleeing from your countries draft is immoral?

    If you are in a country and it goes to war and a draft begins....

    You are Joe Average Consumer and you are drafted.

    The purpose of a state is to uphold the rights of the citizens, if you do not want to go to war, are your rights being trampled?

    Is it immoral to flee the country to avoid a draft you do not agree with?
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    Not immoral whatsoever...I most certainly would not give my life for a conflict I do not agree with...
    Speaking of Erith:

    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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    • #3
      Yes, it is immoral to enjoy the comforts of safety but to evade your civic duty.
      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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      • #4
        Civic duty? To kill the other country's people who are in exactly the same boat and being manipulated by those with power. Throwing your life down does waaaay beyond civic duty...
        Speaking of Erith:

        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Oerdin
          Yes, it is immoral to enjoy the comforts of safety but to evade your civic duty.

          I'm not sure how the "don't ask, don't tell" policy demands that ALL citizens perform their duty.
          A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Provost Harrison
            Not immoral whatsoever...I most certainly would not give my life for a conflict I do not agree with...
            -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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            • #7
              I would avoid the draft if I felt that the war was immoral. If I felt that the war was right, then I would go.
              12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
              Stadtluft Macht Frei
              Killing it is the new killing it
              Ultima Ratio Regum

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              • #8
                I wonder what the best way to dodge the draft as an American is.... Canada will send you back, but how do you get to a sympathetic country in Europe?

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                • #9
                  You could go to Mexico
                  Speaking of Erith:

                  "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Vesayen
                    I wonder what the best way to dodge the draft as an American is.... Canada will send you back
                    Maybe. Not necessarily.
                    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                    Stadtluft Macht Frei
                    Killing it is the new killing it
                    Ultima Ratio Regum

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                    • #11
                      If it was a war we strongly disagreed with then we might let draft-dodgers stay.
                      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                      Stadtluft Macht Frei
                      Killing it is the new killing it
                      Ultima Ratio Regum

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                      • #12
                        I personally find it immoral, but I also recognize there are no absolute answers when it comes to morals.

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                        • #13
                          Yes, fleeing from the draft is dishonorable. Declaring yourself a conscientious objector is the way to go about this while preserving your honor.
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #14
                            Depends on the war involved. Would anyone really think badly of a young German who dodged his draft during WW2 out of an opposition to what his country was doing?
                            Tutto nel mondo è burla

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                            • #15
                              On it's own, and taken out of the context of the general ethical value of the war, fleeing the draft, and/or conscription is unethical. It can be vastly offset and compensated by the ethical value of the war itself. What I mean is that dodging the allied draft is evil, while dodging the Nazi one is ok.
                              urgh.NSFW

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