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Arg. Against Nat'l ID Cards, Ques. 3 p. 616, TIA Mar. 24
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Wait. Doesnt he return home to not face the humiliation of dodging the draft? And as to your question, i have absolutly no idea what i would do. I would be so torn. I would hate to go off and kill people i dont even know, fighting for a cause i dont believe in, but at the same time i cant imagine not being able to go back to the place i was raised
Coming back home would require more courage because you have to face the humiliation. Dodging the draft doesn't really require courage. Does it?
It depends on how you look at it. Which is more difficult--what do you do when everything you trust and have been brought up to believe is suddenly counter to your own sense of right and wrong?
I think that dodging the draft would actually require more courage, at least that is what the book convinced me. It was as though he felt that the right thing to do was to dodge the draft, but he simply did not have the courage to stand up to what everyone told him he must do. Sometimes opposition from people you love can be harder to face than a war.
I think that returning home requires more courage because he is facing his fears. He has already fought a mental battle with the decision whether he should stay or go several times in his head. Now that he has made his decision.. I think it would be tougher to return because he has already ran away from his family who now probably know that he was considering dodging the draft which puts even more humiliation on him.
The decision to dodge the draft would take much more courage because it is the decision to turn you back on all you know, your whole life as you know it ultimately ends and starts over. The decision to come back and face the humiliation is tough, yes, but nowhere near as hard because you are coming back to what you know, not leaving what you know.
Returning home would require more courage because he would have to face his family and friends. Even if none of them knew what he was planning, he would still have to live with that burden and fear that they would find out. Also, by returning home he knew he would have to go to war. That, in itself, is something to fear. Dodging the draft would be taking the easy way out and would be cowardly not courageous.
To me dodging the draft would be cowardly. Although you may not think the war is the right thing, the right thing to do is to comply with the leader of your country. While, some of you may say standing up for what you believe is courageous, going against your country is wrong in a time like this. Dodging the draft is cowardly because you are just hiding out and taking the easy way out by dodging your fears of going over there.
i think it would have taken more courage to cross the border into canada because he knew if he did he would never be able to see his family and he would be disowned by everyone he knew. also he would be a fugitive because cross over the border to evade a draft is illegal. although he knew if he stayed in america he would have to fight in the war, he did not actually realize what war meant and did not take the thought with as much salt as he should have.
I personally I hate to disappoint people.Knowing me i would except my fate of death in war before i would get the stink eye from the ones i look up to for being a coward. But, to ask which is more couragous I would have to say they both are in differnt ways. It takes a strong couragous person to fight and a whimps courage to run away.
I think that leaving and dodging the draft is the easy way out, and his decision to do that comes from being afraid and scared, not courage. By coming back after running away takes more courage because he knows that he will face humiliation and that his pride will be damaged, yet he decides to come back.
I feel that coming home would be the harder of the two decisions. He ran away and now he has to come back home and face his family. I can't imagine how hard that would be. It would have been so easy for him to go to Canada and avoid the draft all together, but that would not have been the right thing to do. I am glad he decided to go back home, no matter how hard that must have been for him, I think he made the right decision in the long run.
Returning home definitly requires more courage because you are not only facing the people who you ran away from but now you have to go to the war. The war is the most couragous thing that you do with you life and that is why that choice requires more courage.
Returning home because he will have to face the humiliation of people laughing that he could not take the draft.
dodging the draft requires being a pussy. if your called to fight for your country you damn well do it. And you do it with honor and dignity. returning would be harder cause everyone knows your a pussy.
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