TheFuture
Well-Known Member
My opinion comes after having served in the military, during wartime, and am disabled. You still shouldn't have to go fight for any type of bullshit whether "for your country" or not. I would still do my part in the military if it was for a worthy cause, say, defending our country and the privileges we stand for.I have no problem with compulsory service to our country. If you live in this country, you are reaping the rewards of those that sacrificed for your freedoms, there is no free ride. If the nation needs you, you should go. We have an election process for electing our leaders & we empower them to take action as necessary. If the Pres says we need to call up the draft to fill our military, so be it, men & women should report for duty, or don't let the door hit you in the ass.....
But fuck to support any type of corporate interests. Screw the straits of Hormuz; build dependency from oil. Keep the Visa systems open so we tap the genius brains of every other country in the first place and avoid the pre-knowledge age idea and philosophy known as "war" altogether.
At some point we have to grow up and become the next "type of civilization" as defined by Dr. Michio Kaku and Niel DeGrasse Tyson and other intelligent beings who know how to "conscript" people into more useful tools than that of killing machines.
Then again, that is Utopia and a dream. Worth working toward and supporting, unlike any type of "draft." Compulsory constructive civil service would be so much more... constructive? I would still hold every one of you by the nape of your shirt before you went barreling off into hapless tragedy of war and say to you, "Are you sure, friend?"