This. THIS. THIIIIIISSS!!!

@WillaKissing eh, i dont know if it is [i]that[/i] cut and dry.

I only go so far as to say that retaliation is not inherently evil.

@Eternity I spent 27 years in the Army doing the biding of whom the US government called evil, and we made it that cut and dry after 9-11.

@WillaKissing personally i dont think the US has been in a justifiable conflict since WW2.

It sucks that passivism is only a virture for the governed and not those that would govern; but that is exactly why it should be discarded.

If your average person was far less tolerant of injustices done by their government, then it would be a lot harder for governments to get their people to participate in wars of aggression.

@Eternity I get what you are saying. I was a soldier that voted/votes his conscience, but I was a soldier collecting pay and doing a job I loved, and I had no choice but to do my job.

Just like a person at any other job, do it or get fired and replaced. Of course, since the government called it a war I would not have been fired but imprisoned, and that is not any part of my future plans.