During the Vietnam War, many Americans went to Canada to avoid and protest the war. How would you characterize them?
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Those with a conscience and/or sensible enough not to fight in a war that should never have happened.
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Intelligent enough to question their government and brave enough to act on their principles.
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Cowards poorer than George W Bush and Bill Clinton and without the connections.
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Cowardly bastards. And then that idiot Jimmy Carter gave them an amnesty. +5
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Well, I guess if they wanted to protest the war that is a good place to do it.
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Some of their actions were cowardly. Others acted according to a sincere belief about the war. I think some of them regretted their flight, and others felt they did the right thing for themselves.
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A lot better off than those who stayed to fight.
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I guess it depends on thier motivation. If they honestly believed the war was wrong, then they were brave and patriotic for voicing, and acting upon thier dissent against thier government. If they were simply afraid of being shot, then we could say they were cowards. But in the end, the protestors and draft-dodgers were right. Vietnam was a war we didn't need, and fighting it did more harm than good.
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