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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
33girl, take another look at my post #218. I didn't say that the revolution was about monarchies being evil. I said that _I_ believed they are evil, and that's why I view rebellion against one as morally distinct from rebellion against a democracy. In other words, I said nothing about what motivated the revolutionaries, only my standard for judging their actions. My only claim about revolutionary war soldiers was that for most of the war, they were "fighting on behalf of what was already a democracy, against a monarch." Do you disagree with that?
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As I said in my post #go&lookitup, treason is treason. If you end up hanged for it, it really doesn't matter whether you were pure of heart or fighting just because you heard soldier suits get you laid.