So, through thinking about various scenarios, one thing that came in mind was wondering about a civil war erupting IRL. I was originally thinking on the Skyrim politics and how heated users got over the two factions and that got me wondering about how I'd do it in reality.

To attempt to discourage any political topics, the vague concept of the question is this: Say your country is forgoing a right initially guaranteed to you that you cherished, but for one reason or another, for the sake of preservation of the country, they revoked the right but more or less turn a blind eye to it so long as you just play along. Say another group succeeds from the country claiming independence because they valued this right and believed if they took over the government, their ideal system would work and replace the government they deemed to have failed them.

My question is, would you fight for your country, your right, or just try to keep your head down/escape the region of conflict? Bear in mind, the right is one you REALLY cherish, it could be practice of religion, expression of sixuality, gun rights, whatever it is you cherish, that right is the one currently banned. (Please don't mention the right though, I don't want this turning into a political brawl.

For me, I'd either try to escape for fight for my country.

I'd never fight for my country. I'd fight for rights but if they aren't unique to my country, why defend it when it revoked those rights?

I would never die for my rights or my country. But I would go to another country with better rights. In the end, its only a idea. A country is merely a idea.

Those Graymanes will never learn...

Unless conscripted I would just stay out of the way.

And uh, tinfoil hats.

When in doubt, flee to Canada, eh?

It would depend on how much I hated the existing government, whether I liked the rebel faction, and whether the right I wanted to keep didn't come at the expense of losing a ton of other stuff that might outweigh it.

The existing status quo certainly wouldn't get any love from me if it didn't offer anything that outweighed the loss. I don't see much point in being mindlessly patriotic if I could play a part in forming a better erm, patria.

I supported the Imperials in Skyrim though. There were other external factors involved in that which swung my decision.

I live in Alaska, no one cares about us anyway.

We desperatly need another American Revolutionary War.

They could say the hell with us and close their borders

I feel like this is going to be locked, but if I feel like the country hasn't been denying me my rights and there is still a revolution, I would defend my country. If the country has been denying my rights then VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

I would probably fight for my country. Often times, revolutionaries institute an ineffective government that is worse than the previous E.G. the French Revolution.

Awww... this here is Argentina, and the horror of civil war is apparently in our DNA as some say, not just since Che Guevara and Gen Juan Perón, to mention but two of the many figures in the bloody game. Today it is quiet at the home front, but nobody knows how long this condition may last. For a long time peace was understood in a negative fashion, simply as the absence of war, a glitch in the permanence of revolution and counter-revolution. So, don't ask me what I'd have done at the age of 15 or 20, I'm 26 now. Today I'd probably rather sign in for a station in Argentine Antarctica to count frakkin Adélie penguins than volunteering as 'Bananita la guerillera' behind a MG3 machine gun ha. Yeah, I'm getting old. Screw that! Yep.

Live long and prosper