In the event of a military draft, what would you do?

Your chopping skills could do some serious damage with the pics in that 'Chinese suicide bridge' thread. I'm just sayin'.....

 

If there was a draft, and any of you turd-nuggets decide to join my beloved Corps, I would be the a-hole in your face every single day.

 

i won't need my jacket

 

I'd join whichever Air National Guard would ignore my coke habit, and then I'd skip out on exercises for my Dad's campaign.

 

Fail for posting the same pic in two seperate threads in the matter of minutes.

 

It was already right click/ copied -- I couldn't have made a lazier copy/ paste joke that -- are you with or against my laziness ?

 

I'd serve, proudly. Yes, that's easier to say than it would be to do, especially in these times, but he asked for an answer and that's mine.

I don't wanna degrade this below hangout material any more than it has, so I won't go on and on about the faults in the reasoning above, but all that talk is just inciting for no reason. Calling people out, throwing the word hypocrite around with fuzzy logic... what is all that? Probably the OP should have seen that all coming, and not posted it here, but basically anything that enters the d&d realm should have been edit pre-submission and changed to "Yes" or "No" with perhaps a SLIGHT qualifier, in place of the antagonistic high horse.

 

Well, I'm hoping to get my PhD by the time Congress passes a draft bill, so maybe there's an academic exemption or something. But yeah, if I get drafted, I'll serve. If this great country needs me, I'm all for it.

 

deckard, time to step down.

 

For the first few years you could get a deferment for going to college, later, like for me, that rule was changed.

You could go through the conscientious objector process where you had to prove you had religious conventions against war ... not easy.

You could join the reserves which meant you pretty much would not be called up in those days; you just had to do the weekend and summer thing. And there was always the chance that you could be activated.

You didn't get your medical deferment until after your physical so you had to be called, and plead your case. Same for insanity or homosexuality.

You could be a married father (I think) or a sole survivng son.

In the old days of the draft there was a local board of citizens that made the determinations about who was drafted. That's how the stories of being connected got started. Later they went to the lottery system by birthday. You were exposed to the lottery in the year of your 19th birthday. My birthday was drawn at #33 in a year they were projecting to call up to about #100 I think so I knew the day they drew that I was screwed. I tended to sorta go rouge after that, didn't go to class, took lots of drugs, read Vonnegut. There seemed little point in holding back.

 

The major problems with this (besides ethics) is that they could just turn on you since they know they are expendable or they might try to escape. After all, they are criminals.

 

I would do anything to keep myself and moes19 out of the war. Anything.

 

Yeah, I'm pretty sure more than HALF of this board would fail the tests to be eligible to join the corps so no worries Deekay.

 

I'd join, kick you ass on the first day, and get thrown out.

 

Perhaps he is being a little too harsh with the wording, especially for Hangout, but his point seems very valid. If you don't volunteer for the army when the country needs you, why would you proudly serve when the draft comes?

To use a common analogy, suppose an English teacher wants someone to read their own essay in class. No one raises their hands. So the teacher has to resort to randomly picking names. At this instance, how can anyone in the class be believed to actually WANT to read his paper? Because if someone wishes, he could've already done so beforehand.

The fact that a person has to be picked using a draft should naturally infer that said person does not wish to be a soldier in the first place.

 

Well, to use a common analogy you can compare it to your wife asking you to mow the lawn. You'd prefer to sit and watch the game. But she drafted you to do it so it you do it because it's your duty. And it'd be nice to have a nice yard. It's not the thing you wanted to do most in the world but you'd do it.

 

If you look at the posts Deckard quoted, they all have something like "Serve Proundly" in it.

I mean, it's one thing to join the army(or mow the lawn) begrudgingly thinking it's the right thing to do. But another to be proud of the fact as if there's no doubt in your mind that you'd enthusiastically do it.

 

Firstly, that's not true. Half of the quotes say nothing of the sort.
Secondly, I don't think those statements are mutually exclusive. It might not be the thing I want to do most in the world, but if called to it I would serve my country proudly. Serving proudly is not the same as serving eagerly.