NEVER. Not for ANY circumstances. If the government is failing to get volunteers, um, maybe it's just a crap war?
Maybe it isn't slavery, per se, in that it's temporary, but it's nearly as bad. People are forced, against their own desires, to risk their life. Many people who could've lived full lives died young because of this horrendous practice, and the fact that some otherwise (presumably) sane people think this is okay shocks me.
The foundation of a stable society is consent, and the freedom to make your own choices. The government doesn't have the right to make people's choices for them--the only rights the government legitimately has are granted by the individual people, to be used with their consent, not the other way around. This argument is far more true when you factor in that this involves a chance of death.
Seriously, anyone in favor of this, in any case, ever, must either be practising intense intellectual dishonesty (i.e. okay with people making their own choices for almost everything except putting themselves in harm's way for a government they may loath) or they're morons (i.e. okay with the government forcing people to do, well, anything).
Maybe I'm just a one-person echo-chamber. Let's see some dissenting opinions:
Lean-FP.
Mainly because i've read about how compulsory military service can bring together people of different social backgrounds. And allow for networking and some say that social skills for many had improved since they were forced to be together.
I support it in times if trouble, like now. Lack of military service has much our generation a bunch of pussies with no appreciation of what our troops sacrafice for us.
...I'm not sure what's worse: the idea that the government needs to forcibly separate people from their lives to "network" with "people of different social backgrounds," the idea that the government needs to forcibly separate people from their lives to make them less..."pussies," or the fact that real people (apparently) have these opinions...
