I've always thought about this, and I feel that I'd be safer as a merchant. I'd be able to keep my technical pacifism, and be able to explore strange worlds, and just as quickly leave when things got too hairy.
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As for real militaries, I'm a conscientious objector (Technically, but I hit a snag currently because I feel the politics of the current conflicts are crooked), disabled, and more than willing to sign papers to emigrate to a more peaceful country.
Overall, I feel the concept of military is obsolete in this age, and instead we should be working to unify peaceful parts of the globe, even if that means say, greatly reducing the USA's overall power and placing sanctions on the country, or dismantling parts of the Middle East, so that way nobody has to argue over who gets to live in a scorched desert the size of New Jersey.
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Post edited October 05, 2013 by Darvond