The draft is morally wrong. Period. No one "owes" a portion of his life to the country he lives in, simply because he happens to have been born there. Further, not everyone agrees with every war, and should not be forced, at gunpoint, to fight against their beliefs, whether those beliefs are religious or secular. We are, allegedly, free people.
If a war is truly necessary, such as defending the country from invasion, it will not be necessary to draft soldiers; you will have the support of nearly the whole of the people. If, however, we are fighting a "police action" in a faraway land against a country which has no means of threatening the people of this country, then we should expect that some folks are not going to be too enthused about joining in the fun against their wishes.
This is supposed to be a free country, the freest ever. We are not even supposed to have a standing army, let alone the draft. The draft means more government with more power over your life, not less government with less power. Do you really want your sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters used as pawns by the government you spend so much time complaining about here? "Everyone should have to serve..." "Military service should be a requirement for citizenship..." If I didn't know better I would think I was reading V.I. Lenin's wish list. Why don't we stop compelling others to do what we think is right, and start trying to live free.
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"...the probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation."
Prof. Frank H. Knight
If a war is truly necessary, such as defending the country from invasion, it will not be necessary to draft soldiers; you will have the support of nearly the whole of the people. If, however, we are fighting a "police action" in a faraway land against a country which has no means of threatening the people of this country, then we should expect that some folks are not going to be too enthused about joining in the fun against their wishes.
This is supposed to be a free country, the freest ever. We are not even supposed to have a standing army, let alone the draft. The draft means more government with more power over your life, not less government with less power. Do you really want your sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters used as pawns by the government you spend so much time complaining about here? "Everyone should have to serve..." "Military service should be a requirement for citizenship..." If I didn't know better I would think I was reading V.I. Lenin's wish list. Why don't we stop compelling others to do what we think is right, and start trying to live free.
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"...the probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation."
Prof. Frank H. Knight