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If only that was so easy. What really happens is that some of the people who don't want to go get jailed or executed, and the rest quickly change their minds. And if you somehow managed to breed a whole nation of people refusing to kill others, then your country would quickly get invaded by another one. "Why don’t we live in the utopia dreamed of by sixties pacifists and their many predecessors? Because if we did, the first renegade to pick up a rock would become a Genghis Khan."[0]

You'd have to enact a global and immediate mentality change to beat the coordination problem inherent in this situation.

[0] - http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=418




Yes the State is an extortionist and if you are aware enough your moral system would lead you to explore alternatives really hard. For example preferring to personally try to be a Conscientious Objector[1] before buying the discourse of a guy with a tie that got elected in office to send you or your children to the front while having equity in the company that will get the contracts to rebuild the mess based on lies.

Dying defending your freedom is something very very different to justifying others people killing based on assumptions of threat after a preemptive war of aggression [2]

The only thing that can try to keep such an illusion consistent is Exceptionalism [3] which would magically give you self-serving moral superpowers.

Extrapolate that a little bit and you will see how Exceptionalism escalates to some form Elitist Dystopia [4]

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptionalism [4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia




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