Gyp Rosetti
Banned
Can anyone here please educate me/us as to why it ended in '73?
Also, does anyone see a situation in which it's ever reinstated?
Thoughts?
Also, does anyone see a situation in which it's ever reinstated?
Thoughts?
The Draft/Mandatory Conscription
- Thread starter Gyp Rosetti
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I am completely opposed to any type of forced military service. Individuals are not the property of their government to be put to use and "spent" as it sees fit. Besides that it makes for a pretty lousy fighting force compared to an all volunteer force.
Hantlers
Well-Known Member
Spoken like a true fat man.
Agreed.
Although, there is a part of me that wishes I would've been forced. So much good comes from service, as I'm sure you know.
aybars
Well-Known Member
i have dual citizenship,,u know whats the funny thing? both countries have Mandatory military service
,so i had to pick oneI was somewhere in line when it ended, though both the army and airforce actually turned me down for physical issues. I believe it was becoming a choice of how to go get all the kids who had gone to Canada, and people were generally pissed and opposed to the war.
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
If you don't graduate high school or drop out or are kicked out and have not later gotten your GED (and have not gained some sort of employment?) by 20 (21?), there is mandatory conscription. Might that help graduation rates, discipline in schools, and teenagers thinking more like adults with real life consequences rather than ones who worry about COD? Might that give those who do drop out or are expelled some sort of direction in life? I'm just spitballing. Keep in mind I am by no means some Patriotic dude. I just think there's a lot of good that can come from service both for the individual and for our country as a whole.
PearlWatson
Well-Known Member
It might cut out the entitlement mentality, where kids want the government to give to them but don't feel they have any responsibility to contribute.
What are you trying to say here?
If the U.S. itself were ligitimately threatened you wouldn't need to draft people. If a nation exists for the benefit of free people then free people have an interest in protecting it. Only when a nation is not free or does not support the best interests of it's people does it need to force people to fight in it's defense. Now, compelling people to engage in conquests of other nations/people is a different ballgame and not something a free nation and/or people should be doing in the first place.