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Just a couple of questions to toss out, for conversation's sake:

Is the military the only way to give something back to the country?

As a follow-up queation of sorts, do the taxes we pay to help keep the country running count as giving something back to our country?



This is exactly what military action protects. Your ability to keep the country running and give people better lives and allow them to live said lives to the fullest with as little violence as possible.

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If an American citizen doesn't believe in a war that America is fighting is right, should he still be made to serve and possibly give his life for a cause he doesn't support?



If you're living in America and are knowingly declared as an American citizen, then yes. You should still be made to do so. As an American citizen, you elected the officials to who make these decisions, they were elected because they were going to make the right decisions in America's eyes. You can't bypass this by saying you as an individual do not stand for what the government does. We live in a democracy, a system from which the decisions to do things arise--A system that uses everyone's voice as a mouth piece. And you knew that from the start. You knew EXACTLY what would come from it; views you don't support, and views you do support. Regardless of either view, you're obligated to follow the country's orders. I don't see the conundrum when taking this into mind. if you don't like that system, then leave.

Now, if you REALLY think that the country is being unjust though, you better go full circle and start some sort of rebellion. Because if you just protest prejudicely and denounce America in all its governmental process with no action, then you sir, are a hypocrite.

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Take the Iraq war, which many people do not support. Should the American citizens who honestly don't believe the Iraq war is a just one be forced to fight it and die in it? Is that the best way for them to give something back to their country?



Yes.

Edit: Had some stuff to add.

Last edited by Pariah; 2004-05-26 7:37 AM.