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It's not good enough to simply say you're a conscientious objector, otherwise everyone and their brother would do it and conscription as a concept would fail.
So, if you are one, you gotta fucking prove that shit somehow. Words aren't good enough. Go protest, join an org, donate to charities, whatever. Need some evidence though.
It's not complicated to understand.
"I value human life and video games aren't real"
It isn't hard
Not evidence though
No mate.
Testimony of what you witnessed, did first hand or was told first hand is evidence.
'I value human life over video games' is a statement or opinion on your thoughts/intent.
That is not evidence.
There's more to it than the clickbait headline.
While I agree with that, I don't agree that playing violent video games is proof that you're not opposed to violence in real conflict.
Agreed, it is not. I think that is more the misleading, clickbaity headline than the argument the courts made though, which is in the article itself.
Oh the horror!
Usually I'd agree with you, but S Korea is in an unusual situation where they would actually get overrun without their army. They're still technically at war, and N Korea does plenty of sabre rattling.
That's not a place like the US, where the military is mainly used for overseas adventures, they face real, external threats.
LOL this reads like a reverse Sovereign Citizen.
Exactly. Where a sov cit thinks they can just say things and make them true, the actual law is a lot more complicated than that. It's the polar opposite.
There are better ways to get soldiers than forced conscription.
Like in Pakistan, they run 24/7 nationalist propaganda about how amazing the military is and how brave men have sacrificed their lives for ~~General Bajwa's 300 papa john's locations~~ the freedom of the nation.
Or in the USA, they run a 24/7 marketing campaign advertising minimmum wages and education in exchange for "chilling" 6 years in the infantry with no post service trauma or health issues whatsoever.
Saying it is good enough. It's not unreasonable to think a regular person might be against human rights abuses. You can't demand that citizens go support your imperialist regime just because they only indirectly show support for human life.
Not good enough for a court, they have to examine more than merely the defendants words.