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In reply to the discussion: Conscientious Objection...do you approve or not? and when? [View all]MineralMan
(147,067 posts)26. Yah, well, I was just 19 when I joined the USAF in 1965.
There was no question in my mind what would happen if I had been drafted instead. If you're stupid enough at 18 not to know you might end up fighting when you joined the military, I maintain that you're not smart enough to become a conscientious objector, something that takes some thought.
These days, most 18 year olds have played hours of violent military-style video games, have seen movies, and watched television. I don't think many people at age 18 are unaware that the military fights in wars.
If I'm wrong, then people are a lot more stupid than I think they are.
I don't know how old you are, but I'd ask you to think back to when you were 18. Did you not know, then, that the military fought in wars?
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I think YES, providing in all of ones life, they refuse to pick up a gun
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#1
My two cents on taking human life is that there are really only two types of killing.
Selatius
Nov 2012
#7
IMHO a drone on Hitler before the escalation would have stopped it then and there
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#52
Without a draft, how is CO at all relevant to anything? I assume that there is some point to
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#5
What if you joined, saw the reality fo war(after joining voluntarily)and THEN decided
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
#19
The DOD allows for discharges based on conscientious objection even after having been deployed.
Agony
Nov 2012
#45
I wanted to explain what I meant by "Conscientious Objection to particular wars"
Ken Burch
Nov 2012
#20
I knew a couple of guys who were COs and served as combat medics in Vietnam
pinboy3niner
Nov 2012
#50
I have trained in and counseled others in how to establish a legal claim to CO status
quaker bill
Nov 2012
#39