Military

What you guys aren't understanding is that is there is a large difference between attack and defence.

Defending your country is honourable, right and quite necessary due to potential conquest. Attacking other countries that pose no tangible threat is disgraceful behaviour.

I'm happy to support soldiers who engage in the former, indeed I am proud of them for it.

But I have nothing but contempt for those who go forth and mindlessly attack. Indeed, I have the utmost respect for those few recent conscientious objectors who risked imprisonment and other punishments to make their moral point.

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Yes it is. War causes an enormous amount of sufferring, wasted resources and lives. It takes something other than selfish animal urges to resist the temptation to submit to the will of an oppressor. If you can resist this temptation you possess the moral calibre associated with being a good guy.