Equating conscription with slavery conveys strictly less useful information. There are many social constructs that forcibly remove rights from someone while re

Equating conscription with slavery conveys strictly less useful information. There are many social constructs that forcibly remove rights from someone while retaining others. The set of rights a conscript loses is radically different from the set of rights a slave loses. As a citizen of the US who is not of cosncription age, am I "slave" because the government has removed my right to own nuclear weapons or kill bald eagles? No, obviously not. While conscripts are forced to do some things, they maintain many rights and are treated as people, not property, under law.