<p>By the time a draft was initiated, I would have passed through the CIC desks at Pearson Airport a long time ago. To hell with everyone else. My role on this planet is to protect myself and my immediate family. If I want to help people, I have to be alive to do it, not to mention financially stable.</p>
<p>The highest form of patriotism is dissent. What you’re describing is sheepish nationalism. Sometimes you have to stand up to the government and tell it to go **** itself. Just look at the past century of world history. Do you need to be dragged off to concentration camp to realize that? The French realized this 200 years ago and cut off Louis XVI’s head, along with 17,000 other people’s. While I don’t necessarily condone those actions, in France, the citizens run the show, not the corrupt ******bag political hacks who are beholden to their special interest lobbyists.</p>