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Anyone who accepted orders to go fight in Iran can get what they signed up for imo. An order has to be lawful to be required. These people are spineless.
My son is 22 in a few weeks. He is allowed to make his own life choices and I try to never tell him what to do but be more of a guide. We sat down and I TOLD him if the draft happens again go to prison before you go to war. He immediately agreed this was already his stance. We talked about a friend of mine who’s parents fled Nazi Germany (to work on the manhattan project no less, he’s a cool person to know) and how their family members who stayed behind and chose to just be “good Germans” by going along with it absolutely regretted it, how it tore apart families, just really emphasizing that from his family’s experience being the “good German” was a terrible and irreversible mistake. Don’t serve, don’t help, love your countrymen and build communities.
One of my grandfathers was a "decent" German, got drafted, and returned from Russia as a depressed, violent, alcoholic cripple, which made my mom's childhood hell.
My other grandfather bribed an official to get a stamp as "essential worker" and avoided the draft, then secretly learned English during the war (by listening to the BBC). He got rich collaborating with the Americans when they took over.
What the hell do you expect them to do, quit?
Nearly all of them aren't doing anything that terrible. And for the few who do have targets, it's hard to question if your targets are legitimate or illegitimate, particularly beyond a shadow of a doubt.