<Is draft the same as slavery?
In a non-democratic society it is. In a democracy when the nation as a whole decides if it is worth the war, then no; it is just the price of being part of that society.>
What if the democracy decides, by 70% vote, which is a big vote, to just send the melanin-rich young males to the war?
What if the draft is just for some males, of a certain age, decided by those getting the short straw in a lottery and who don't have Daddy who can get them a cushy number flying aircraft?
Democracies are not harbingers of ethics. They are just, usually, less bad than totalitarianism or dictatorship.
Those who try to draft, press-gang, or conscript somebody against their will, deserve to be seen as enemies who deserve a bullet through the brain in self-defence. Societies which run on such authoritarian conficating principles are invariably unpleasant for those on the receiving end of the bad stuff. They are excellent for the slave-drivers [though not compared with better societies].
Neither might, nor majority vote, make right. A majority vote in favour of putting the negroes back in their place is not right in an ethical world of libertarianism. But it's okay in the regular democratic systems. New Zealand has apartheid now under development. It's not going very well, which isn't surprising, and the high rate of miscegenation will doom it within a couple of generations.
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