Behavior and Motivation

We can't accurately ascribe one single motive for the antiwar behavior of students.
For some college students in the Viet Nam era, going to Canada or seeking conscientious objector status, resulted from their honest conviction that it was an immoral war.

For others, self-preservation or self-interest may have been the major impetus for the same behavior. Or, for that matter their motives could have been mixed.

Similarly, many young people who decided to GO to Viet Nam --whether enlisted or drafted-- went because they thought it was the patriotic thing to do. While others may have submitted to being drafted not because of the 'rightness' of the war but because it was the line of least resistance -- especially in the early years of the war, when young americans from small-town, and middle america would have been subjected to intense scorn, derision and even threats from some of their townsmen, if they actively opposed the war or refused to go.

Overt behavior does not, in itself, definitively answer the question of a person's motivation ...or of their virtue.