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If war breaks out and you are drafted into the military, what would you do?
- Thread starter Exellus
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I'm 37, so if I'm getting drafted that probably means we're literally getting invaded and the enemy is in the streets. I'd probably ignore the order and stay with my family to try and ensure their safety.
I'd probably try to avoid it if at all possible, but I have a feeling that given my educational background and skills I'd likely be put to work in military R&D rather than put on the front lines. Assuming I couldn't defer it for educational reasons as a grad student (which wouldn't need to defer that long since I turn 26 this year). That said this whole scenario is super unlikely
Good post. And it's heading even further in that direction with AI and robotics research. War is becoming more gamified.
That said, if it came down to drafting a 40 year old with bad knees, bad back, and mental health problems, we're all probably pretty well fucked anyway.
Given all we know, it seems you'd have to be quite immoral to just accept the draft and go to war.
I'm mentally ill and wildly suicidal so like, they put a gun in my hand I'm shooting myself in the head. Told the recruiters that used to come into the store I managed the same thing.
Protest like Muhammad Ali did. I'm not going to kill people for psycho fucks just because I live in the same country as these political fuckheads.
I'm a determined pacifist. I won't fight a war, not because I disagree with the politics behind it (although I almost certainly will), but because I know it is only because individuals fail to see fighting or not fighting as a personal choice that there ever are any.
It's an ideal stance, and undergoes severe challenge in the face of a true existential threat. "What if you needed to protect your loved ones?"
If it came down to a true, all-encompassing conflict, I would enlist in any medical service that could find a use for me.
It's an ideal stance, and undergoes severe challenge in the face of a true existential threat. "What if you needed to protect your loved ones?"
If it came down to a true, all-encompassing conflict, I would enlist in any medical service that could find a use for me.
Lol ok set myself up for that one.
Unless you're serious? I hope you are not serious... hard to tell on the internet and all.
After Vietnam the military leadership doesn't want a draft either.
When I became a US Citizen I had to say something along the lines of I'd go to war for the country. :/
I'm old enough and have enough medical issues that if I was actually drafted and didn't get rejected the US would really have to be on the brink of defeat.
Depends who we're fighting and why. If Canada was being annexed by a foreign power then I would happily do my duty. If China tried to invade Australia or something crazy like that, i'd like to think i'd want to help. If the Americans were just off murdering people again and was forcing our involvement, fuck that.
I'm probably not in the first wave of names for a draft, nor do I think we'd ever reinstate the draft again in the first place.
But no, I would never fight in a war for the fat, old, oligarchs in Washington. Never.
But no, I would never fight in a war for the fat, old, oligarchs in Washington. Never.
If the draft was reinstated, the threat is existential. Believe it or not, the US military doesn't want you there if you don't want to be there. If it ever got to that point, we're literally defending our homes, not going going to some far away battlefield.
America isn't so screwed up that I would object to defending my home from a foreign power.
I suppose we could be the bad guys that are losing, but in that case refusing to fight would probably mean execution.
It's kind of a silly question since it would only happen in the worst possible scenario.
America isn't so screwed up that I would object to defending my home from a foreign power.
I suppose we could be the bad guys that are losing, but in that case refusing to fight would probably mean execution.
It's kind of a silly question since it would only happen in the worst possible scenario.
I wouldn't get drafted for two reasons.
1 - I'm not in the US.
2 - my being an amputee would disqualify me on medical grounds
1 - I'm not in the US.
2 - my being an amputee would disqualify me on medical grounds
I'm a white woman in ideal breeding age if I had blonde hair and blue eyes I would be a scared cow to trump supporters.
All shit aside I dont believe the draft would be reinstated. You got more than enough teens that would enlist because all the previous family men did and will probably be peer pressured into doing it. Dont forget about poor rural teens that GI bill is a golden carrot to them. Lastly you got enough racists and psychos that want to kill brown people.
All shit aside I dont believe the draft would be reinstated. You got more than enough teens that would enlist because all the previous family men did and will probably be peer pressured into doing it. Dont forget about poor rural teens that GI bill is a golden carrot to them. Lastly you got enough racists and psychos that want to kill brown people.
To fight a belligerent nation that invades other countries and destabilizes entire regions and has concentration camps for little kids? I think that kind of supervillain is a thing of the past.
