Able bodied Jehovah's Witnesses in time of war will not only refuse service in the Military but--unlike many other pacifist non-combatant
denominations, JW's will also refuse civilian service legally provided for conscientious objectors.
That leaves the members of all other denominations to give up their lives for their fellow man OR to do humanitarian service in hospitals.
From the JW point of view the bad guys are defending the Jw's right to sit out the war while the bad guy empties bedpans.
Jesus said, "Greater love has no man than he lay down his life for his friend." How much more so if the "friend" is a hateful JW?
Now, another thing.
Jehovah's Witnesses have tender conscientious reluctance to fire a weapon at an enemy in a time of war BUT they have no problem
shooting people who threaten their Kingdom Hall.
Facing Page One
The Watchtower, Sept. 15, 1939, pp. 279-280
June 10, 1940: Edwin Bobb was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. He was congregation servant for the Kennebunk, Maine congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Bobb issued weapons to other local Witnesses and turned the Kingdom Hall into a firing platform anticipating trouble from rioters. Then Bobb and fellow Witnesses waited in ambush. Some men showed up in a car and before it was over two men were wounded, one seriously.
(Ironically the one seriously wounded is said to have had his life saved by administration of a blood transfusion without which Bobb would have faced a charge of murder.) The only firearms confiscated belonged to the local Witnesses.
Police confiscated 5 rifles and 2 shotguns from the Kingdom Hall. Bobb was later convicted of attempted homicide. Attorneys Hayden Covington and Charles Smith were counsel for Bobb. After incarceration Bobb worked at Bethel and on special foreign assignment for Watchtower from 1948 until 1956.
So, are JW's really conscientious or are they remarkably cunning at doing whatever they damned well please and fobbing it off as religious scruples?