This is your brain on idealism.

If I steal a baby’s lollipop but I have goodwill in my heart then I’m actually doing a kind thing

Okay, and what motivation do you see for fighting in the Vietnam war do you think he had that is defensible and somehow better than dodging the draft? Even if this ridiculous, anti-materialist take were true it would STILL be aggressively fucking stupid.

If you believe that abortion is murder, are you right to kill doctors that perform abortions? What about maiming them with intent to prevent them from working, or firebombing their clinics? You are, after all, motivated to stop murders.

thank you for gracing us with your wisdom oh learned one. I see now that intentions are the fundamental determiner of ethical action. truly deontology and consequentialism are philosophies of the damned!

in all seriousness please read a book on moral philosophy. there's so much more!

You are my absolute favorite lib, please come back again and teach us more!

Maybe I'm built different but I would simply go to jail rather than participate in a genocide.

If you think that potential consequences (a stint in jail) is worse than actively murdering people than you are simply selfish.

Also, of the over half a million draft offenders, only 3000 were ever sent to jail for it.

You make it sound like folks had a choice.

Of course they had a choice. They could choose to become violent enforcers of the empire's will, or suffer state violence a thousand times milder than what they were being asked to commit. It's not like they were being black bagged and dragged to the front to be thrown into a meatgrinder without training or equipment, like Ukraine has been doing. They were told "go and murder for our vanity, for our dominion over all things, or sit in this box for a few years" and they chose to go do violence and bring horror and death to innocent people on the other side of the world instead of sitting in a cage for a few years.

Draft dodging isn't as hard as you think it is. Just have kids, go to grad school, join the National Guard (you will be in the military, but you won't be deployed or really do anything), drink a bottle of soy sauce right before your medical, say you're gay, make some track marks or sh scars, get fat, join the clergy, work in the mines, work in a defense plant, or just listen to Phil Ochs.

if you choose to kill foreigners instead of taking 2 years in prison then you're either a piece of shit or a coward
fuck the yankee wehrmacht