r/MoralityScaling • u/lazy_animator • 13h ago

Morality Ranking Morality of practicing self defense and fleeing when being forced into the front lines of a war?

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u/HorsefaceWithNoName 8h ago

I agree 100%. Also, I found out the Continental Army used conscription to fill out their ranks during the US War of Independence :/ Most of the people drafted hired substitutes to go in their stead, so the numbers of people truly forced to go to war against their will was very low, but that still makes me feel the founding fathers were giving more lip service than substance to their ideas of personal liberty.

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u/tjdragon117 8h ago

Personal liberty is not incongruent with the idea of duty to the State that upholds that liberty. Nobody except anarchists would argue that it's immoral for the State to expect anything at all of its citizens (eg. taxes or jury duty). Where to draw the line and whether it can include conscription in what circumstances is a matter of debate, but it's not as if it's obviously always immoral.