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Eddie Slovik
Eddie Slovik

Eddie Slovik, born on February 18, 1920, and died on January 31, 1945, was an American soldier of unknown identity. He was sentenced to death for desertion during World War II and sparked widespread controversy in the United States when he publicly stated that he was willing to serve the American army but not in war. more

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“Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.”