Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by vidarh on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:25AM
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The point is that those things happens to you as a solider only because you chose to not take a much simpler way out. The civilians did not have that choice.
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Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by notahacker on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:59AM
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Civilians can often emigrate (or relocate within a country to less risky regions) with at least as much ease as soldiers facing conscription. Their choice not to was typically for very similar reasons as people tend not to dodge drafts.