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**boxcigsnick** · 08-29-2012, 10:31 PM

That's a retarded position to take.

Joining the military and being sent to a war zone is completly legal as far as the individual Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine is concerned. You can argue all day long about whether or not a country is in the wrong, but the individual isn't culpable.

What about someone volunteering for death camp guard duty in Nazi Germany?
By comparison, robbing a bank is a crime. The bank robber is individually culpable for his behavior.

By your example, anyone who cashes a welfare check, regardless of their individual circumstances, is a thief for taking money out of my pocket, against my will.

It's just dumb. Not sure about that comparison. Someone who cashes a welfare check is just getting money already allocated and taken from other citizens. The government is the one taking/giving it. A person signing up for the military, invading a foreign nation and then killing its defenders is actually doing the invading and killing. Now if the government made it legal to kill the rich for their money and the poor started raiding rich peoples' homes to take their possessions, you might have a point. But that is not the case.

08-29-2012, 10:31 PM	#23
boxcigsnick Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 569 Senior Member	That's a retarded position to take. Joining the military and being sent to a war zone is completly legal as far as the individual Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine is concerned. You can argue all day long about whether or not a country is in the wrong, but the individual isn't culpable. What about someone volunteering for death camp guard duty in Nazi Germany? By comparison, robbing a bank is a crime. The bank robber is individually culpable for his behavior. By your example, anyone who cashes a welfare check, regardless of their individual circumstances, is a thief for taking money out of my pocket, against my will. It's just dumb. Not sure about that comparison. Someone who cashes a welfare check is just getting money already allocated and taken from other citizens. The government is the one taking/giving it. A person signing up for the military, invading a foreign nation and then killing its defenders is actually doing the invading and killing. Now if the government made it legal to kill the rich for their money and the poor started raiding rich peoples' homes to take their possessions, you might have a point. But that is not the case.
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