Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free makes no sense.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
We must not however be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention disregarded also the humane aspiration.