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Re:Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health ... by nickff on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:02PM (#10841082)
If you can't convince others to defend your country through rhetoric and compensation, perhaps the country isn't worth defending; your comment implicitly assumes every state is worth sacrificing young lives for.
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Re:Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health ... by mgkimsal on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:04PM (#10841091)
> your comment implicitly assumes every state is worth sacrificing young lives for.

no, it assumes those in control of the state believe it is worth sacrificing young lives for.

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Re:Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health ... by nickff on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:08PM (#10841118)
Apologies if I misread your comment, but I read the following quote to imply that coercion was acceptable once the volunteer army was not enough:

>It's fine to have a volunteer force, until we need more. Then force is brought in.

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Re:Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health ... by mgkimsal on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:09PM (#10841125)
I don't believe it is acceptable, but the people in power probably (often?) do believe that it's acceptable, generally because it's not their own lives at risk.
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