Yeah I broadly agree. Idk when I was younger (and doing a lot more psychedelics) I had this idea that all soldiers were murders and being a conscientious objector was a moral imperative.
I’ve softened that view the older I’ve gotten but certain wars, like you point out, such as Vietnam or Iraq where the country isn’t posing a threat probably retain that same moral calculus.
It is different when your country is under threat like if you were Ukranian. However I’m not sure what I’d do if I were put in that situation. To be honest I might also try to chase self-preservation over anything else.
Yeah “all soldiers are murderers regardless of whom they fight for/against” is a level of delusional mushrooms I can only dream of.
If I was Ukrainian, or even in a position to volunteer to fight in the foreign legion I would. It reminds me a bit of 1956 Hungary. Listening to their final radio broadcast, is to put it mildly, incredibly saddening.
Fuck the USSR, and the tankie stupidity about it and their “tHe WeSt”
Self-preservation is a morally acceptable reason to not do something unless a reasonable case can be made that you should do that thing.
It’s not cowardly to not throw your life away for no good reason. Unless he had a moral reason to go, he had a moral right to not go.
Conscription produces bad soldiers and it’s morally reprehensible to conscript soldiers to invade a country that does not pose a threat to you.
Yeah I broadly agree. Idk when I was younger (and doing a lot more psychedelics) I had this idea that all soldiers were murders and being a conscientious objector was a moral imperative.
I’ve softened that view the older I’ve gotten but certain wars, like you point out, such as Vietnam or Iraq where the country isn’t posing a threat probably retain that same moral calculus.
It is different when your country is under threat like if you were Ukranian. However I’m not sure what I’d do if I were put in that situation. To be honest I might also try to chase self-preservation over anything else.
Yeah “all soldiers are murderers regardless of whom they fight for/against” is a level of delusional mushrooms I can only dream of. If I was Ukrainian, or even in a position to volunteer to fight in the foreign legion I would. It reminds me a bit of 1956 Hungary. Listening to their final radio broadcast, is to put it mildly, incredibly saddening. Fuck the USSR, and the tankie stupidity about it and their “tHe WeSt”