erm, maybe this's become a bit random (the boat that was my context has sailed..) but as for the moral dilemma of not serving your country in a war, well for me it's simple. I count myself as a citizen of the world, I have no national pride. I know an Iraqi, he's a very English Iraqi (English parents etc)and he's a really decent bloke. Nationality really means **** all to me, real ideas might be worth dying for but some nationalistic bigatry based on tribalism that evolved to perpuate our selfish genes ought to be discarded, like it's time to ditch some third world debt and stop de-regulating industry so it can **** workers and the environment alike. If they introduce conscription you won't see me for dust. I think it's a breach of fundamental human rights to expect people to risk dieing horribly and sacrificing their innocence by killing strangers for political ends that they probably are not being told the truth about.
Just my opinion, I know it's not definitive!