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I disagree. For me, I'd be a lot more of willing to accept an order that could get me killed if I has signed up voluntarily. If you press me into service & th
by PopeDotNinja 8y ago
I disagree. For me, I'd be a lot more of willing to accept an order that could get me killed if I has signed up voluntarily. If you press me into service & then order to me to charge in the direction from which the bullets are flying, I'm much more likely to tell you to go eff yourself.
To look at it a different way, would you rather be shoulder to shoulder with people who had all signed up willingly, or with people who had been drafted against their will?
- mrob 8y ago>I'm much more likely to tell you to go eff yourself. That will probably get you shot for treason, so the smarter thing to do is to take decisive action preemptively. I'm not making any claims as to what that action should be, but I can't think of any reasonable possibilities that would be good for the ones who forced you to be there.
- tejtm 8y agoI am not a fan of draft, never have been but your argument however well intentioned bolsters that of a (VN) vet I know, he was & remains a pacifist, He believed he would be drafted so he signed up just so he could have some choice and became a medic. Bad things(tm) did happen. He supports the draft because in most groups there would be an unwilling participant or two who would function as a tiny shred of moral compass. When you got a group entirely self selected to do bad things(tm), he reports it gets much worse.