You have a point about the inevitable loopholes. I should have left out the part about "friends and family"--now that I think about it, I think the person was more intending that if the war directly affected more people, there would be more pressure on politicians to make wiser and more reasonable decisions (for lack of a better way to phrase it).
Obviously I wouldn't want to be drafted or have my friends drafted either, were they to reinstate the draft, but when I take a step back from it, I think it might be out of selfishness rather than idealism. That makes me uncomfortable; if it were a war I considered "necessary," how would I feel? If the bottom line is that people will get sent over to a dangerous place where they'd rather not be, how is it justifiable that I believe that the people I know shouldn't be sent? Why should it matter who's getting sent?
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Date: 2005-01-23 04:35 am (UTC)Obviously I wouldn't want to be drafted or have my friends drafted either, were they to reinstate the draft, but when I take a step back from it, I think it might be out of selfishness rather than idealism. That makes me uncomfortable; if it were a war I considered "necessary," how would I feel? If the bottom line is that people will get sent over to a dangerous place where they'd rather not be, how is it justifiable that I believe that the people I know shouldn't be sent? Why should it matter who's getting sent?