Statement: Honor
By seannelson
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Look, my case or situation boils down to this: by the rules of honorable conduct, the authorities(and a number of private corporations...) owe me for various services rendered, or in the case of the Obama administration, surrendered(my free speech and political loyalty, for pressing national security reasons, averting nuclear war...) my compliance with the administration likely saved the lives of millions of Americans. I'm sick and near the point of death... given the help that I'm owed, I can recover and perservere... I can't make the decision-makers be honorable... but this is a case that will be thought about for centuries... if you or your descendants will ever need to call on the honor of the people... this is where you're showing that you have honor and are thus entitled to it. Part of the problem seems to be that we don't understand each other... but there hasn't been much real effort to understand me from say the perspective of a conscientious objector... you don't just walk through the social forms as they already exist when someone has effectively shown that something's going truly haywire... and if you do and the person is damaged, you can hardly blame them... to clarify my earlier statement regarding 'freedom of speech...' as well, at the time that freedom of speech was very significant material power... for reasons of honor and patriotism, because I respected your lives more than you seem to respect mine, I... well, what was asked essentially amounted to giving up the Sanders movement... and we were nuclear war: it felt legitimate... but this is not...
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