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> Did you read the article? Did you read my post? I read his entire article and quoted it. Pacifists are to violence as anti-vaxxers are to medicine: freeload

• mikeash 11y ago
  Wow, that's rather strong language, especially given the context. Even in the most strident defenses of US involvement in Vietnam, I have never once seen anyone argue that the safety of the United States itself was at issue. Even if we accept that this war was a fight for freedom and democracy, is it "freeloading" for someone to refuse to fight for the freedom of people thousands of miles away in a completely different country and culture? In addition, a relatively small proportion of Americans are ever involved in the military these days. Is the vast majority of the population freeloading? Or does it somehow only qualify as freeloading when you avoid the military because of principle?