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What is a conscientious objector?

What is a conscientious objector? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Someone who refuses to fight in an armed conflict because of religious or moral principles.
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The law says you don't have to be a pacifist to be a conscientious objector.
And as far as the Vietnam War goes, I read that you were a conscientious objector.
He resolved his many conflicts of loyalties during the Second World War by becoming a conscientious objector.
Permanent members of the armed forces should have the right to apply for the granting of conscientious objector status.
He didn't, however, follow through with his desire to be a conscientious objector, he says, because the unit chaplain discouraged him.
During the First World War, he was a conscientious objector and worked on road-digging and similar tasks.

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