3) I'm not the OP, but strictly speaking, isn't there always a choice even if most or even all of them are terrible? In the case of forced military service, there have been quite a few people who choose to go to prison rather than serve; and even in cases where the outcome of refusal is harsher, there have been people who chose to defect, tried to mutiny, or allowed the state to kill them.

So I suppose then it's more a case of the less control you have, the less karma you generate? Is this a topic for meditation?