For what it’s worth I am married to a service member. He does everything he can for his guys and does not sit around and complain about how “useless” they are or were. Sure there are plenty of people who aren’t fit for military service but the way you frame it sounds so condescending. Also if they were already in your…
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My thoughts exactly. If people think getting rid of the draft will reduce warfare, I think that’s wrongheaded for the exact reasons you state.
Moreover, I worry at times, given how volunteer military service seems to run in families, that over time we’ll create a separate warrior class with its own interests. That can…
As a dude over 18 who comes from a military family, I know this. I don’t understand why everything I’m saying continues to sail right over your head.
I don’t know how to more clearly state that I don’t need the concept or application explained. I am saying that there is no situation, present or future, where a draft…
Conscription is slavery, and has usually been applied more to poor people than the rich.
The sentiment alone is dumb. That was the point. Nobody should have to go to court to protect themselves from a conflict they had no part in creating.
Yeah, fuck that. Nobody should be forced to fight the wars of their country.
No one said to do nothing, put placing the blame for these wars on an american people who don’t care about them because we have a volunteer army instead of a draft is hella disingenuous. islamaphobic fear mongering has more to do with keeping us in the middle east than Americans just not caring.
Right. Since the politicians will are in bed with the military-industrial complex, the only thing that will sever this tie is the agitation of the people who still have votes. And can vote them out. It brought the Vietnam war to an end.
Placing the blame for drawn out wars on the public rather than politicians in bed with the military industrial complex is fucking absurd.
I am fully aware of the difference and again, I will simply reiterate: I believe everyone should have the choice to serve or not. I do not believe that anyone should be forced to, so yes I would happily eliminate a draft if I could. I do not need to predict the future because no future event or situation would change…
No-one has suggested your father did not make sacrifices or do good things, but he was exempted from a requirement to fight in a war. You seem to believe both that the requirement to fight placed on others and your father’s exception were/would be acceptable. Frankly I have more of a problem with the first of those…
I think the problem people are having with your story is that it reads like you are equating your father’s experiences (he sounds like an amazing individual) with those of people who were forced to travel to the other side of the world and kill people. Unfortunately, many weren’t as respected or educated as your…
My father had an early draft number. He was forced to leave his PhD program and devote himself to alternative service until the war ended. The only reason he did not go to war was that he was an impassioned religious pacifist with a long list of witnesses who attended a multiday hearing and testified on his behalf…
I believe that the right to refuse to serve is a fundamental human right.
The unintended consequence of abolishing the draft (or relying a volunteer army as we do today) is that people become complacent about long-drawn out (or any) wars since most of our children are not involved. Political passion against the war in Vietnam was sparked by the draft.
He was neither “effectively” or actually drafted.
Personally, I just don’t understand why women continue to join the military when we’ve heard all these horror stories about widespread sexual abuse and a system that only makes it worse for survivors. I know there are efforts being made to change that, but it’s not like the problem is disappearing, and it’s not like…
It sounds fair to me. They need to take care of their rape problem first though.
So, basically, it’s like everytime you try to have a faculty meeting. Everyone is never free on the same night.