The most important argument against the draft
07/11/05
Many Americans fall back on utilitarian arguments against the draft, saying it's unnecessary or ineffective in defending America or engaging in foreign interventions. These arguments might very well be sound, and have their place. But the most important, fundamental argument against the draft is moral. The draft is a form of slavery. There is no way around it. Compelling a person to work for the state is involuntary servitude. Forcing a person to fight, kill, and possibly die in a war -- and threatening resisters with imprisonment and deserting conscripts with death -- is a particularly immoral brand of enslavement, and it is murder for all conscripts who do not survive the war...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0507e.asp
from Future of Freedom Foundation, by Anthony Gregory
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Many Americans fall back on utilitarian arguments against the draft, saying it's unnecessary or ineffective in defending America or engaging in foreign interventions. These arguments might very well be sound, and have their place. But the most important, fundamental argument against the draft is moral. The draft is a form of slavery. There is no way around it. Compelling a person to work for the state is involuntary servitude. Forcing a person to fight, kill, and possibly die in a war -- and threatening resisters with imprisonment and deserting conscripts with death -- is a particularly immoral brand of enslavement, and it is murder for all conscripts who do not survive the war...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0507e.asp
from Future of Freedom Foundation, by Anthony Gregory
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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