Do you think fleeing from your countries draft is immoral?

[Vesayen]

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?

[Provost Harrison]

Not immoral whatsoever...I most certainly would not give my life for a conflict I do not agree with...

[Dinner]

Yes, it is immoral to enjoy the comforts of safety but to evade your civic duty.

[Provost Harrison]

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...

[MrFun]

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.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Not immoral whatsoever...I most certainly would not give my life for a conflict I do not agree with...

[KrazyHorse]

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.

[Vesayen]

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?

[Provost Harrison]

You could go to Mexico

[KrazyHorse]

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.

[KrazyHorse]

If it was a war we strongly disagreed with then we might let draft-dodgers stay.

[Winston]

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

[DanS]

Yes, fleeing from the draft is dishonorable. Declaring yourself a conscientious objector is the way to go about this while preserving your honor.

[Boris Godunov]

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?

[Az]

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.