That to me is the #1 reason to stop registration.
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Who Should Be Eligible For Or Exempt From The Draft?
- Thread starter Revoltingest
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That to me is the #1 reason to stop registration.
The 13th Amendment allows the use of prisoners as slave labor.
I'm against all drafts. To me there's too much on the line with people's lives and too little transparency. I'm not going out and killing people for someone's nebulous idea of 'the greater good.'
I don't mind people being drafted to serve their country for a limited period. I lot of people I know have learned a trade while serving in the military.
At the same time, I don't trust the government when it comes to decisions about war.
In defense of the country, sure. If they need folks to go to war in other countries, not so much.
So to serve one's country sure. To go to someone else's country and kill people, I'm not for that kind of draft.
Some of us already had a trade.
If serving one's country is so virtuous, why
should such a small percentage of men do
it against their will for slave wages.?
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
During the Vietnam "War", I could not apply for conscientious objector status since I didn't belong to a "peace church", and yet I was strongly opposed to our involvement there on both a strategic and moral basis. However, my draft number when drawn was way down the list, but had I been called my wife and I planned on leaving and going to Canada, and we would do so with a clear conscience. No, I did not have five bone-spur deferments to avoid going.
But only two years ago I found out that I could have gone if drafted in a role minus carrying and using a gun, such as being a medic.
But only two years ago I found out that I could have gone if drafted in a role minus carrying and using a gun, such as being a medic.
Great, that's even better. Jump right in and get to work.
I didn't claim it was virtuous. Just maybe the idea of supporting the country that supports you.
I thought the idea was to have everyone support the group they belong to in whatever capacity they can. Not just the few.
Don't forget Biden's 5 student deferments & his asthma deferment.
Odd, isn't it....we hear so much from the left about Trump being
a cowardly draft dodger, but only crickets about Biden doing the same.
I did.
I worked on F-18 flight controls at Northrop.
But I did this of my own free will.
**** conscription.
Why is this support required of only a minority of straight men,
& under threat of imprisonment? Do women, gays, clergy, trans,
& handicapped people have no duty to support their country?
It's always the few.
And the many are rather stingy at compensating them for it.
Buttigieg, on the other hand ...
So a draft can coincide with freewill.
Again, I thought the idea of this bill was to change that.
I'm fine with getting everyone involved.
Secret Chief
Stiff Member
The US has conscription?
Aren't rolls something one butters?
Yeah, too bad the Democrats decided to go for the other guy.
Friend of Mara
Active Member
How about no draft at all? If a country cannot justify its actions to a point where we get consensual service then should they be doing it?
Still no criticism for Biden's avoiding the draft.
Personally, I credit both Trump & Biden for
using the system to stay out of the military.
I'm fair & balanced...although more prone
to falling than in me youth.
Only for those who planned on joining anyway.
For the others, it is coerced.
Ostensibly. But politics will introduce exceptions,
eg, getting pregnant, converting to a pacifist faith,
becoming a priest.
Even against their will?
I prefer that military pay be high enuf to get the
job done solely with volunteers. If a society that
doesn't serve isn't willing to pay volunteers to do
what they won't or can't, it's not a society worth
defending.
Also, it's inefficient to draft aerospace & weapon
design engineers to carry a rifle on the front line.
We don't have conscription at the moment....not since the 70s.
But men (not trans men) must still register for the draft.
And there should be free stuff for everybody that only the top 1% pay for, and no more war, or pollution, and free unicorn rides!
It's like we share one brain!