[steve-b]

First, there is no "pain of death"

Nonsense.

The government orders you to do something. You tell them to get bent. The government sends men with guns. If you tell the men with guns to get bent, they kill you. QED.

[PzLdr]

Tell that to all the draft dodgers and deserters from as far back as the Korean War who, as far as I can tell, either died of natural causes, or are still walking around.