[extropy-chat] 70% oppose resumption of military conscription

[Mike Lorrey]

--- c c <beb_cc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Anyhow, the 'only' problem you have is individual conscience and free
> will. You can negate free will by incarcerating a draft resistor, but
> you cannot broach the conscience-- unless by hideous torture.

Well, no, the state can simply kill, as they have done in the past.
That is the sort of force you play with when you are a willing statist,
you shouldn't be surprised when turnaround comes to point its gun at
you. That is the system you voted for, the police state. A willing
statist does not have a concience with which to validly object to being drafted.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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