Reply #55: The social contract applies for defense, not aggression

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I don't want a social contract that says you can be taken as an empire's cannon fodder. I don't want a country that seizes young people and makes them cannon fodder. Sure, we all should rise to the nation's defense, and when it's at stake, few begrudges the call. We are so far from a situation of needing a draft for that, it's not relevant. The main argument of progressives who want the draft comes down to holding some unlucky 18 year olds hostage against their will so that their parents and peers will become activists on their behalf. You miss the war protests of the 60s. Well, those war protests weren't such a great thing because a generation of young men got screwed for them to happen.