
Refusing to fight in WW2
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What's the Biggest Concern of Conscientious Obsessed Persons?
Social stigma was a common thread through the people that you looked at um how much did social stigma play a role in their experiences. When conscientious objectors grappled with what their conscientious was saying what it meant they should do and their obligations as a response more than not they were thinking about those intimate personal relations. They were thinking about the consequences for their mother or their father or their brother who might be in the military or what their girlfriend or boyfriend might think uh as kind of grand abstract ideas to do with socialism or nation or or religious uh religious faith it's a truism.
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