Violence, Science and Ethics <Tab/>Tim O'Brien's story entitled "The Man I Killed" takes place during the Vietnam War. This story is about 3 men that stop to search a body that one of the men named Tom just shot. The other men, Kiowa and Azar, want to keep moving on but Tom will not move or speak. He was overcome with the guilt of killing a man and starts to look …
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…experience and most of them not even wanting to go anyway. And if they refused to go, except for religious reasons, then they are faced with jail time. Today the draft is not in action, but if needed then Congress could write it back into a law in a matter of moments. Our country is supposed to be free but we are restricted in so many ways by the government. Freedom in essence is anarchy.