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Would you 'die for your country'?
No_One_Special Posted Nov 22, 2002
Shouldn't the question be - would my country die for me?
Would you 'die for your country'?
Wargamer (The Wanderer) Posted Nov 22, 2002
Hmm... Who'd bet for 'No'?
Do value your liberty enough to risk death in it's defense?
Stealth "Jack" Azathoth Posted Nov 24, 2002
hm.
Do value your liberty enough to risk death in it's defense?
Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Nov 25, 2002
Do value your liberty enough to risk death in it's defense?
Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' Posted Nov 25, 2002
Yes.
But that is not necessarily anything to do with your country.
Do value your liberty enough to risk death in it's defense?
Stealth "Jack" Azathoth Posted Nov 25, 2002
Does the country you lve in have the rights and freedoms of it's citizens enshrined in law? If so then any hostile action taken against your nation is a threat to your liberty... that is assuming you are not a collaborator...
Do value your liberty enough to risk death in it's defense?
Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' Posted Nov 25, 2002
My country is not synonymous with my liberty. Threats to the latter are not only from outside the former, nor even connected with it. And my liberty is more important than my country.
Do value your liberty enough to risk death in it's defense?
Stealth "Jack" Azathoth Posted Nov 25, 2002
Forgive my slowness to see what should have been an obvious point
Do value your liberty enough to risk death in it's defense?
Mystrunner Posted Nov 25, 2002
I don't. But I do enough to die for yours.
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Would you 'die for your country'?
- 41: No_One_Special (Nov 22, 2002)
- 42: Wargamer (The Wanderer) (Nov 22, 2002)
- 43: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Nov 24, 2002)
- 44: Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) (Nov 25, 2002)
- 45: Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' (Nov 25, 2002)
- 46: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Nov 25, 2002)
- 47: Phryne- 'Best Suppurating Actress' (Nov 25, 2002)
- 48: Stealth "Jack" Azathoth (Nov 25, 2002)
- 49: Mystrunner (Nov 25, 2002)
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