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The dominant public belief seems to be that the bodies of citizens were rightly conscripted in a war against a highly dangerous virus. Of course, conscription has always been a contentious issue.

Into the moral calculus must go a consideration of the extent of the threat (by foreign nation or virus etc).

Is the force on our shores? Is the virus a highly contagious form of Ebola? and so on.

Methinks Vietnam and CONVID hardly justified conscription.

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