conscription

is immoral --- Societies that rely on conscription to survive do not deserve to exist.

Societies that rely on conscription to survive do not deserve to exist.

is a symbolic projection of the assumption that the individual citizen is but a pawn in the hands of unlimited State power.

Universal military service, said the declaration, had always been a way for dictators to suppress the conscience of a people and to indoctrinate them with the notion that brute force was superior to ideals. “The essential idea underlying military conscription is the major premise of every dictatorship and all totalitarianism,” the signers said. “It is the assumption that the individual citizen is but a pawn in the hands of unlimited State power.” It was July 8, 1940.

is a way for dictators to suppress the conscience of a people and to indoctrinate them with the notion that brute force was superior to ideals.

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conscription