Yes, war is awful. It's more than that, it's horrible. All the more reason civilized people should avoid it. But is it necessary?
"SIGH"
It's hard for me to say. In this world, against a Hitler or a Husain, only the individual can be the judge. I wore the uniform for almost a decade. My conscience allowed it. After I started "studying" with the witnesses, I could not put that uniform back on, ever.
But the real issue is what does my conscience allow NOW. I don't condem ANYBODY who wears the uniform. I don't condem ANYBODY who willingly puts themselves in harms way to protect me and my family's freedoms, PERIOD!
I'd gladly let those in uniform lean on me for suppot. Feed them, shelter them, support them if it came to that. My non-military contribution to freedom I suppose.
That real issue of conscience is what the Borg masters demand from every able-bodied man and woman. They demand you suppress YOUR conscience and inflate their own! A persons individual conscience is NOT for those mummies to take. But they immorally take it ANYWAY!
In reference to Farkel's felony conviction, it was the Borg masters who lied to him by pressuring him to make THEIR decission when it should have been his decission to make all along.
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