I don't see "our country" as primary - I see individuals as primary. ...and enslaving everyone for 3 out of their 45 productive years seems like an INSANE cost, in both liberty and in opportunity cost. https://twitter.com/RobotWrangler_/status/1215747694066532355 …
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8/ my solution would be to shoot slave traders, whether private or governmenthttps://twitter.com/uckema/status/1215775007781068802 …
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9/ We won the cold war without a draft (for 95% of it). A draft doesn't enable manpower - you can always get manpower. A draft enables the government to get manpower - WHILE INSULATING IT FROM THE ACTUAL COST. https://twitter.com/SaltNFire/status/1215775477538938880 …
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10/ Interesting that in a war we draft people for infantry, but turn around and ask defense contractors how much weapon systems will cost, and they generate that number by seeing how much engineers cost on the open market...
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I fundamentally believe in the warrior/military ethos, and I think that it has benefits--there's a reason warriors are respected in nearly every civilization, and I think it would be good for us to have that in ours... But there's no reason warrior societies need the government.
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At a fundamental level, private and volunteer militias would better serve many of the functions of the modern military.
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Compelled work would be more beneficial than compelled schooling. This isn't a good argument, but it is the best I can think of.
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actually, in my case my military service did provide some really useful life experience.
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They taught me how to operate a nuclear power plant… They also taught me how to shoot nuclear weapons at people. You decide if that counts as “useful life experiences”
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