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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (135026)	5/31/2004 12:20:28 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (3) of 281500

There is no contradiction between freedom and conscription. There's a big contradiction - conscription is a form of slavery, which is the opposite of freedom. In fact sharing the sacrifice of military service will encourage the debate of whether a war is justified, and may stop some wars from taking place. I think the empirical evidence is on the other side, i.e. drafts enable war. The sacrifice isn't shared, either; drafts generally target a narrow slice of the population (e.g. young men). I am much more worried about a group like the current admin hijacking the military for their own purpose, and the rest of the country not having an incentive to stop them early on. That's a problem, but I think a bigger problem is informational. War propaganda is powerful stuff, and not many people can resist it.

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