It is Less Ethical to be a Soldier than a Prostitute.

"C is for Con C is for Cool You wanna be cool right? Vote Con! " Damn. Wish I had thought of that first. Anyway, I think I have equated prostitution, in terms of ethics, to about the same as an office job. So all I have to do now is prove that being in the army is worse than having an office job. The way I see it, it is absolutely wrong to join an institution that you know will propagate war, death, and conflict as armies do. When the draft comes around, does that mean draft dodgers are immoral? Those who choose jail time over the SEC? They are willing to face public humiliation, and go through any punishment the government throws at them, because they value peace and the lives of others. It takes a lot more courage, honor, and bravery, to resist your government through nonviolence than to resist that of another through guns. People have an awareness that they will be turned into an instrument used to kill others, and that they will suffer tremendously as well. But what do they value more than this? "Their country. " I used quotes because the country does not belong to them any more than they belong to it. It just so happened to be that they were born into that country by chance. You did not choose to be born in the United States, but it still requires you to pledge allegiance to its flag, to promote national unity. But nationalism, as it is also called, is an evil. There is no fundamental difference between the people in your country and the next. You have no obligation to "buy USA" any more than you have to go to Lowe's because it's closer to you than Home Depot's. Because all humans are humans, and you just so happened to be stuck with the humans in this part of the world by the lottery of birth. Promoting nationalism comes at the expense of internationalism, as every time you create an "us", there is a "them" created as well. I'm not saying we should have a "global village" with one big government or anything. I'm just saying we need to recognize an Arab the same as our next door neighbor. Nationalism impedes that, some notable examples being: Nativist "know-nothing" party whose goal was to exclude immigrants from jobs and politics. Anti-Chinese sentiment during railroad boom in U. S. Pretty much every dictatorship or corrupt government starts to gain ground when it appeals to the nationalism of its people. North Koreans are routinely told to hate "imperialist America" along with middle eastern regimes, Cuba, etc. The Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party) gained much of its power calling for a stronger, unified Germany. Kamikaze pilots during WW2 USSR- United soviet socialist republic. And there are more examples, but the point I am making is that a soldiers allegiance is to their country, or nationalism. Protecting the homeland is why they participate in wars. Unless nationalism can actually proved to be positive, better than a neutral, money, then prostitutes would have a better motivating factor. Also, since legalization is always tied up with prostitution, what would an illegal army equate to? Gang members. Gangsters form loyalties with their gangs, and accept money to kill people. They say they are just protecting their turf, but more often go and kill others instead. Gangsters operate outside of the law, armies are sanctioned by it.