Conscientious Objectors

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The American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters' League and others publish pamphlets asking young men to consider their options.

The AFSC book says

1. you may be killed

2. you may kill or injure others

3. you may be injured

4. you might not receive adequate medical attention

5. you could be injured for life

6. you may be asked to violate your beliefs

7a. you may not be able to leave the military when you want

7b you may be lied to

8. you may experience discrimination
to which could be added

9. your wife or husband and children will suffer from the loss of your presence as well as of your higher wages

10. you will be supporting an illegal immoral war in which innocents and soldiers also are murdered

11. you will be supporting extensive killing also of animals, birds, fishes, trees and plants

12. if you are a woman, the odds are you will be exposed
to sexual harassment and even rape

To the American Friends Service Committee list can be added

13. The right to refuse vaccines is not honored in the military and
soldiers are exposed to several vaccines all at once.

14. Vegans and vegetarians find it difficult to get nonviolent food not involving the
eating of murdered animals, birds, fishes, or the products of
animal slavery (milk, eggs, cheese etc.)

15. Families often don't survive the separation. Divorces occur.

16. There is a higher rate of sexual diseases.