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Yeah, stopping the Nazis turned out bad for everyone. Dumbest fucking statement.
Ripping apart a baby to bring the rain is a bad thing regardless of whether or not it rains. Kidnapping kids under threat of decades of torture and telling them to kill or be killed is bad regardless of whether or not it stops the Nazis.
Forced conscription is a crime on the level of genocide, because often that's what results.
Oh fuck off with that self righteous shit. You'd have to be a complete idiot to make this argument. You have to be really young to still think you can make this argument and not look naive and stupid.
No, I value freedom over something as stupid as a country. If the country is worth defending, people will volunteer.
Kidnapping them and sending them to their death is pure evil regardless of the reason. There is no justification. If your country does that, it deserves and needs to be wiped off the face of the planet.
It's not naive to value human life over a nation.
What freedom if we lost that war? And the Jewish people who would have been exterminated if it went on? The disabled the queer people? Sounds like you only value certain lives.
You're standing on an imaginary soap box, and you can only do that because those people were sent to war.
That's great and all, but your criticism needs to be redirected at yourself. Gay people aren't gods. Neither are Jews. Neither are disabled people.
They are not ubermensch to which we should sacrifice our children to unwillingly.
They are not special. No one is.
If your cause is great you'll have no problem finding volunteers for your war. If not the cause wasn't that great. You don't get to tell others how they should die or what they should fight for. The right of life and death over themselves is the only true right that humans have, and violating that right is the most evil thing; whether it is murder, genocide, or conscription ending in either.
Nazis are awful, they deserve to die. I'll probably die fighting them based on my class and characteristics. But forcing someone in front of their bullets for my life would make me as evil as they are.