Lawmakers Push For End To Draft Registration In US

[Kelvin Mace]

9. The current system

uses young people in their teens or barely out of them. These people are easily deceived, have little understanding of their own mortality, are still conditioned to obey adults with little question. I submit that you cannot have fully understand what you are getting yourself into when you "join the army/navy/marines/air force" at that age because you have yet to learn how much people lie, how they use other people for their own ends, and how war is not a "black & white" thing where we are automatically the good guys.

Most people do not become politically aware until the reach their 30s/40s and thus have little political say about acting as pawns for old men's schemes. People 35-65 have a MUCH greater appreciation for their own skin, are far less trusting of following people blindly, have a better sense of right and wrong, and when they vote are likely to be damned unhappy with politicians who lie them into wars.

The people who routinely vote for war-mongering, jingoistic politicians generally have no skin in the game. Once its is THEIR ass getting shot at, especially when politicians can be pulled out of office and dropped into a combat zone, there will be a far greater desire to settle disputes diplomatically rather than militarily. When you have CEOs of defense contractors on the receiving end of their own products, it will give them greater perspective about their future product planning.