Avoiding 2 year mandatory military

[servus_Mariae]

There are some countries that has 2 year mandatory military duties.

Would it be a sin to go to another country (America) and, after getting a green card, they recall you* but you refuse to go**?

*(even after one gets green card, one still needs to go or have to keep deferring it until a certain age or until one gets citizenship)

**(The USA doesn’t deport one even if one stayed in the US, although if one goes on a trip to one’s native land one would be immediately arrested)

 

[Smber2c]

That’s an interesting question, but I’d say that ultimately - if a person has not been able to fully change citizenship, and is currently legaly obligated to serve the time…then yes they should do so.

During their military service they should avoid sining, but depending on where they were that shouldn’t be impossible.
(while in Costa Rica studying spanish I roomed with a young man who was from Switzerland, they have 2 year service - he said he spread his first year over a couple years of training weekends and then the second he spend modifying old American tanks to go faster and drove them all over. Never saw any action, and certainly never had the moral difficulty of killing innocents, dropping bombs, etc…)

 

[rwoehmke]

If one’s intent is to follow the green card with American citizenship, I would hardly say it was a sin. Even if that was not the case, it is not always a sin to disobey civil law;depends a lot on the specific law. Of course if one goes home, he will be subject to any penalty because he may be considered to have an obligation to that home country.

I had a friend from Turkey many years ago. He was here on a student visa and could have gotten American citizenship rather easily upon graduating. He chose to go home and visit his parents and ended up in the Turkish army for two years. His assignment? Teaching school in a primitive village that had no electricity or public utilities. He served his time and returned to the U.S. and became a citizen of this country.

 

[Holly3278]

I don’t see what would be wrong with serving in the military if you served in a non-combative position. Even serving in a combative situation would be ok if it were a just war I would imagine.