what compels you to measure a life by the weight of sacrifice to a cause not its own? shall i, a creator of values, bend my knee to an idol not of my making? israel, like any state, is but an artifact of human striving, a construct of power, force, and necessity. to die for it without first affirming it as my ownwithout it being the vessel of my highest willwould be to abdicate the very essence of my being. do you not see that the call to enlist is the call of the herd, the collective will that seeks to subsume the individual into its machinery of survival? to fight another's battle is to risk becoming a mere cog, a tool, a nameless soldier in the army of someone else's dream. i do not reject action, but action must spring from a will to power, from my will, not the inherited commands of the masses or the expectations of duty.
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