Kwame Anthony Appiah: Rethinking Identity
The Good Fight
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The Conscription of Quakers in the First World War
If you push people into a certain kind of identity politics, they're going to claim that it's a terrible imposition on them if you ask them to do something or other. And the way i win the argument is by saying, this is superimportant to me, and who is the government to say it isn't superimportent? Well, we do have models for dealing with this. One model is the model that developed in societies that had conscription for conscientious objection. We didn't just allow people to declare that they had a conscientious objection. They had to show that they were willing to take on the sort of risk that conscription imposes on people without being willing to fight. So that
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