Just one more thing, sorry ;-)
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm pointing out that you feel at liberty to hold everyday people to the
high standards of certain outstanding people such as Gandhi....while
leaving yourself exempt.
It doesn't take "outstanding people". How many protestors have been arrested here (and elsewhere) for protesting the war? Hell, I was arrested once (under age - which I wouldn't tell them, as soon as they found out I was 16, they got me the hell out of CJ [County Jail]. AFAIK, nothing ever showed up on my record) when I joined some college students at a protest.
You make the point that some people who enlist in the Armed Forces do so "hoping they never have to kill anyone." Way back, I suggested that was a very ill considered thing to do. You can't join any militia if you aren't ready to say, "Okay, my college tuition is worth killing some one for, or at the very least, worth helping others kill some people for - i.e. PFC Lynch." Now if these folks really believe that, they are immoral (in my book, and I suspect the books of the majority). If, as you say, (and yes, as I suspect) a good many of the enlistees hadn't thought about killing anyone when they joined up, then they are at best naive.
But if they were truly only naive when they signed up, then they don't have to be an "outstanding person" to say, "No, I don't want to kill. I don't even want to contribute to killing. Because my having to spend some time in the brig is better than my becoming an accomplice to murder."
And no, I'm not exempt. But then, I didn't enlist did I?