<p>hec2008: Props to your mother! I am a parent of both a daughter and a son, and I agree with NOW's position: I am totally and completely opposed to the reinstatement of the draft and have done draft counseling. However, were it to be reinstated, I would be in favor of women being drafted as well. I agree that many women would not be appropriately placed in combat situations, but when women do non-combat jobs, men are freed for combat duty. (Sniff sniff, I love my son.)</p>
<p>National service does not require military application.</p>
<p>However, I would fight for non-military solutions for policy problems, and fight for the right of young people to structure their own lives, free of governmental interference.</p>
<p>I must strongly state that the lives of young men are just as precious as the lives of young women. In an era of overpopulation, we certainly can't make the argument that women should be exempted because of their wombs.</p>
<p>As a college professor, I feel for all my students. Young men are relieved by my position and more likely to be receptive to egalitarian ideas about gender roles in response to my egalitarian ideas.</p>
<p>women should be equal to men. in order to do so, they must be eligible for future drafts. otherwise, we might as well take away their rights to vote, and discriminate against them in the workplace. women worked so hard to get equal rights...obviously, they are not yet equal since they are not eligible for future drafts. i think it would be almost a waste of the effort of so many women before this time if women did not fight to be included in future drafts.</p>
<p>Driver's licenses serve more of a purpose than just ID cards. </p>
<p>Conscription implies that the government controls your life and can make you go to war at will. The original intent was to create a government which protected personal privacy and individual rights, not the other way around.</p>
<p>A license serves a much larger purpose than to simply identify you. We can't follow the constitution line by line because times change and there was no way the founding fathers could have anticipated what the US would become. </p>
<p>Conscription, though, is quite off and relatively unnecessary.</p>
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<p>Exactly the point I was trying to make....</p>
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<p>conscription serves a much larger purpose then to simply control your life. The whole point of a draft is to muster troops when supplies are low. Just because something isn't laid out in the constitution doesn't make it unconstitutional in the modern sense.</p>
<p>if there is a draft, then women should be drafted</p>
<p>but i am totally against a draft. why should you be off fighting to fill some millionaires pockets. i mean its the rich people who start the wars and the poor are the ones who are left to fight it and they're brainwashed into thinking that its called 'patriotism'. if all those politicians were sending their kids to iraq then i wouldnt mind but you know what is some 19 year old with no money life to him? yeah fight to defend your country. no fight to fix the problems the stupid rich caused because of their greed.</p>
<p>also what if you dont like america, then why should you have to fight to 'defend' something you don't approve of.</p>
<p>geez make all the politicians fight it out among themselves and stop being so careless about human life.</p>
<p>"its the rich people who start the wars and the poor are the ones who are left to fight it"</p>
<p>That is exactly why some people want a draft. The government fills the all volunteer force by offering huge signing bonuses and educational benefits which entice poor people to join while the wealthy kids stay home. A draft (provided that is its blind to socioeconomic status) might negate this problem. </p>
<p>"also what if you dont like america, then why should you have to fight to 'defend' something you don't approve of."</p>
<p>Because even if you don't approve of the American government, you still benefit from the services it provides. As a member of a society that is safeguarded by the state, you have a responsibility to aid in the state's defense. There is no way to abandon the obligation because you can never fully remove yourself from society.</p>
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<p>Couldn't have said it better myself....nobody is forcing you to stay in America and open yourself up to a future draft....however if you do decide to stay here and benefit from the services provided to you then you have an obligation to serve if called upon. If you don't want to serve then don't stay here and benefit from societies services.</p>
<p>I almost didn't become a American citizen because of the USCIS lady. She was a b**** to me. She accused me of perjury then I corrected her and she got angry.</p>
<p>I wanted to slap her and say she ruined it for me.</p>
<p>but anyway America is a great place to become successful and I want to leech off this country's benefits. So if I do get drafted and forced to fight my home country I will. </p>
<p>when i took the oath I was pretty much saying "I trust the judgment of my fellow voting citizens and our president" </p>
<p>besides why you guys so afraid of a draft? it's not going to happen in our lifetime.</p>
<p>Women fought for freedom, while doing this they destroyed the nuclear family and the entire workforce. Our economy became crap . Now we have a world full of scumbags.</p>
<p>So it was there choice, so yeah they have every right to be killed first.</p>
<p>"Because even if you don't approve of the American government, you still benefit from the services it provides. As a member of a society that is safeguarded by the state, you have a responsibility to aid in the state's defense. There is no way to abandon the obligation because you can never fully remove yourself from society."</p>
<p>well, i can understand being drafted if your country is actually threatened. but if the war really has no justification, then why should you have to fight it? </p>
<p>also there are usually people who can be excluded from the draft like people in college. or like during the civil war, if you had a large plantation you didnt have to fight. these are probably going to be the richer people, so still the system is unfair to poor people.</p>
<p>The thing is when you live in America you give up your natural rights. if they want to go to war over chocolate milk, you have no choice. No matter how stupid you think it is, the reason or justification does not matter, you have no obligation to even know what the war is about. </p>
<p>When you were born your parents chose to give up your natural rights, if you don't like it then there are many other countries you can move to. You choose to live here, so such it up.</p>
<p>Living as a Citizen of a Country, you have certain duties. You cant just take, take and take without giving back. This world is really filled with a bunch of scumbags, how would you feel if the government just stopped doing its obligations like its citizens do.</p>