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If there’s a World War III I’m not fighting in it. One thing I’ve learned from a career in reporting is that you should not sacrifice your life for any abstract ideological cause. They usually add up to complete folly or merely the dirty game of some powerful people conflated with the public interest. 

If you are directly defending your own home and family that is a legitimate reason.

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This. 

Politicians start wars by playing callous political games, vying for power, trying to spread their world view, and trying to capture strategic regional outposts, while often handing off neocolonialist exploitation rights to industries favourable to the western hegemonic regimes. When those games backfire, wars begin.

Let the politicians and their families be conscripted. The rest of us can and should choose not to. If enough people did this worldwide, war would cease. 

It’s unlikely, but sometimes choosing the moral option means taking a leap of faith.

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And they will as long as we are forced to earn a living. As long as we have to compete over pleasing someone just to have our needs met, we must sacrifice the longterm common good for the short term advantage. All the rest is a result of this underlying condition.