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From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
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Subject: Re: (Re:)*n reply to ** FRODO **
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Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 19:17:53 EDT
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   " 2.  Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs -- even that
	killing is wrong -- but anyone who would oppose the draft
	-- even on the grounds that killing is immoral -- has got
	their head up their a**.  IF you're drafted AND you
	actually do have a conscientious objection THEN you get
	a noncombative position.  However, opposing the draft
	itself is denying the right of the government to raise an
	army to defend the country.  Tell me, bright eyes, who
	the hell is gonna defend your beautiful land if nobody
	wants to get drafted?  "

If the country is worth defending, and I think it is, and if there is
an imenent danger of attack, which is certainly not the current case,
than people will volunteer to defend it.  If they don't, then it must
not be worth much.

I am not a pacifist.  I don't beleive however that someone else has the
right to tell me to kill someone with whom I have no disagreement.
-- 
Larry Kolodney 
{linus decvax}!genrad!grkermit!larry
(ARPA)  rms.g.lkk@mit-ai