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Originally Posted by AlmostGone  As an American citizen, I live in, arguably, the greatest country that has ever existed. |
lol
That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. Thanks for lighting up my evening!
With all respect, AlmostGone, you're talking about your country and citizen duties exactly like a nazi.
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Originally Posted by AlmostGone If I may ask, why wouldn't you kill Nazis during WWII? I understand non-violence when possible. But Nazi Germany was killing Jews as fast as it could. Indiscriminately killing men, women, and children who committed the crime of being a Jew. |
Yes, Nazi Germany was killing Jews as fast as it could. That doesn't mean that every german soldier was a jew-killing nazi. Most of them were far from that. They were forced to serve anyway, whether they wanted or not. And some of them were just people believing, just exactly like you're doing right now, in defending their country when it's under attack.
So you would have indiscriminately killed everyone who committed the crime of being german? Wow! That's, of course, much better than indiscriminately killing everyone who committed the crime of being a Jew.
I don't think killing people is a solution for anything. I don't agree either that killing people is the only way to stop the killing of people. I don't believe that answering with violence, hate and nationalism will stop violence, hate and nationalism.
It's difficult to predict, while comfortably sitting in an office chair, how I would react in case of war, but my theoretical choice is not to kill anyone and not to support war in any way, not even in a non-combat role.
Baltar, some members of my family also were killed during WWII. But killing to defend your kids in the very moment someone tries to kill them is not the same as randomly killing all people wearing a given uniform to hypothetically prevent them from killing your kids.