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[AcertainLiz]

90. Oh dear...

"First some of the countries you mentioned don't even have mandatory national service. For example the vast majority of those called for Norway's service program are excused, the participation rate is only 13%. It's a voluntary program in practice. That's literally the first thing I looked at to spot check you, would you like me to see which other countries you're in error about? "

So the fact that one country doesn't regularly enforce it means it doesn't? So okay, what abut countries that do? Is the idea in principle slavery? Again, you're not debunking me, you're nitpicking and avoiding the answer.

"Second, it doesn't really matter. The right of an adult to control their own labor and priorities is enshrined in our constitution. We fought a war over it. It was a big damn deal. "

Yet the draft was always upheld as legal, so no.

"Third, your insistence that national service would reduce militarism only works if one is entirely unfamiliar with US history.

Fourth, your insistence that elites would be subject to national security only works if one is entirely unfamiliar with both US history and the current implementation of US policy.

In short, it's an ill-informed, painfully stupid idea which you have failed to support at all effectively."

I've already answered these so I don't feel the need to respond to your "ill-informed, painfully stupid" response.