Conscience in War

You can reach your shoulders with an unstable bunker. You are in Iraq, the land you learned, yet you feel that you are not like an endless desert. Your training sergeant is shouting that you are shooting at your enemy. You are frozen. This is not something you remember signing up. You want to protect yourself because you love the United States so you came to this foreign land. When you aim for a stationary target without counterattack, you feel like you control. I really did not think what you were doing at the time.

"Declaration of conscience for the Vietnam War" written by David Dellinger et al in 1965 is a good example of whether the act is illegal or civil disobedience. The conscience declaration violated the law when he recommended other people to refuse service to the Vietnam War. Those who signed the "declaration" knew they were in violation of the law; signing or distributing a statement of conscience may be considered a violation of the "World Military Training Service Act" There was not pointed out. For some people this is also a civil disobedience practice.

For some people, the declaration of conscience is civil disobedience. According to those who opposed the war, the bill was broken, but illegal acts were reasonable for that purpose and purpose. By paying attention to unjust bills, signatories of "declarations" and dealers eventually hope to end the Vietnam War - it is an event that will benefit the United States and Vietnam. According to their beliefs, the people who signed the "declaration" are trying not to be selfish, but rather to benefit society rather than themselves. Therefore, the signature of the conscience declaration can be regarded as civil disobedience.

On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King made a landmark speech to condemn the Vietnam War at Riverside Church. Kim argued, "My conscience has no choice for me," and the war is harmful to poor farmers in the United States and farmers in Vietnam, and the fundamental that the United States stops war with nonviolent means Beyond Vietnam who claimed that it is morally necessary to take measures ", 139). King's anti-war sentiment declared in March 1965, "It costs millions of dollars every day to deploy troops in the southern Vietnam and our country can not protect Selma blacks' rights" It started in March 1965. Day). When the King faced the country, he told reporters that he had "predictive function" as a pastor. "We are extremely worried about the necessity of world peace and the existence of human beings. For the 29 th month