29-03-2009, 04:44 PM
Charles Drago Wrote:"National service" is just that -- indentured servitude.
I reject out of hand the notion that I owe service to the political state in which I happen to reside.
Here's my deal with America: I obey its just laws, pay its just taxes, participate in what's left of its economy. Period.
In return, and in theory, I receive benefits under the force of this nation's just laws -- most significantly, protection against all efforts to curtail and/or deny my inalienable rights not as an American, but as a human being.
I am obliged, as a thinking, moral being, to treat my fellow humans -- and indeed, all higher life forms -- with respect, consideration, and compassion regardless of where they happen to live.
I am under no moral obligation whatsoever to serve the aims of this or any political state, and neither are you.
Couldn't agree more Charlie, and so I wonder what form of "inducement" they have up their sleeve to deal with objections like yours?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14