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To: higgmeister

Very familiar with impressment. Not with “press gang.” Given the well-documented Russian use not only of impressment, but kidnapping of children to pressure their parents, that’s not a very strong argument against Ukraine. And again, you make false equivalences when you compare impressment into war AGAINST your homeland (or to foreign lands) to impressment into war to DEFEND your homeland.

In fact, YOU should know that the American side impressed Americans into defense of America, and both sides impressed people in the U.S. Civil War. Impressment ended in America only as it became not admninistratively worthwhile; there’s no great moral distinction between impressment and drafting.


32 posted on 06/28/2023 2:36:15 PM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: dangus
...there's no great moral distinction between impressment and drafting.

That is hilarious.   Sad for you to say, but hilarious.

You see nothing wrong morally for "press gangs" to walk the streets of your homeland knocking citizens in the head with a sap and carrying them away with their loved ones having no idea where they went.   With luck, their loved ones finally finding out months or years later they died in battle far from home?   You had better be lying or you are the worst human being on the face of the earth.

33 posted on 06/28/2023 2:50:58 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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