conscientious objectors
Principled draft resisters
Conscientious objectors are people who refuse military service or combat duty on moral or religious grounds.
The term emerged during wartime drafts, when governments had to decide whether to imprison such individuals or assign them alternative service: Conscientious objectors worked as medics or in civilian public service camps.
The designation requires demonstrating sincere belief, not mere reluctance to fight.
- pacifistsThose opposing all warfare
- war resistersThose opposing military participation
- military serviceDuty in armed forces
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
- desertersThose who abandon service
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- peacepeace, peaceful, peacefully, peace sign, peace symbol
- Dissentprotest art, civil disobedience, dissidents, protest songs, protest poetry
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- peace movementspacifism, nonviolence, peace activism, peace activist, peace activists
- Sixties Activismanti-war movement, anti-war protests, campus protests, counterculture, draft resistance
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
conscientious objectorsvolunteers
Unpaid willing workers
military volunteers · enlisted soldiers · enlistees · career soldiers · combatants
conscientious objectorswar hawks
Pro-conflict faction members
militarists · warmongers · jingoists · hawks · interventionists
conscientious objectorsloyalists
Faithful to established authority
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