The first sentence from Trump is right. The second speaks to his moral depravity.https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1301972236790886402 …
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How does that make sense? There's nothing heroic or laudable about going to jail. I hate trump as much as anyone, but I don't get this.
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Civilian service as a conscientious objector was also, at least for Quakers and some others who could document it, an OK option.
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That right was only won for non-religious objectors by people going to jail and appealing their conviction.
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Is anyone actually getting confused and reading his remarks as a defensible anti-war stance, though
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1) I've spent years examining and re-examining my motives and my ethical thinking. I think, actually, there were only two ethical choices: defy the draft and accept jail time, or serve because it was your citizen's obligation to accept the draft and serve in the military.
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You have no obligation to commit war crimes. In fact you have an obligation not to
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2) I can't do it over again. I found ways to avoid being drafted, and I helped others escape it, but, retrospectively, I think we collectively helped undermine what it means to be a citizen. I regret those choices now.
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I oppose Vietnam but when I dropped out of college I enlisted in USMC bc I believed I had an obligation to service & did not want someone to be drafted in my stead
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I lived that era. Don't forget student deferments, which resulted in the poor and disadvantaged being disproportionately drafted
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My dad got drafted anyway because his university lost his records, was poor, and went.
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