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MadLinguist

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24. Because it makes the insanity of war everybody's business

Tue Jan 7, 2020, 01:53 PM

Jan 2020

If you and your children and your friends' children have their lives on the line, you vote for the people least likely to bring war and destruction to the nation. If war is fought by the economically disadvantaged, as it is during non-draft eras, there's a big sector of the population who are revved up and full of patriotic fantasies of domination. The vast majority of such folks do not have anything to do with the military; somebody else's kids die. So the draft makes the responsibility of war fall into the democratic process.

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Why do you want to bring back the draft? cwydro Jan 2020 #20

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you're not breaking anything to me MadLinguist Jan 2020 #33

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