Re:U.S. Army Drops Requirement for High School Diploma Amid ...
by EasyMark on Sunday January 28, 2024 @01:42PM
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It doesn't really matter if the US would benefit from forced military service because that's not the kind of values the country was founded on. Drafts may sometimes be necessary in wartime, but during peace it's an awful idea to force military training on everyone.
Re:U.S. Army Drops Requirement for High School Diploma Amid ...
by kerkeslager on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:32PM
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On the one hand, one of the values our country was founded on was maintaining the right to own slaves. On the other hand, the values that our country was founded on that I still care about, like free speech and privacy, have been eroded far more severely than a draft would erode them.
I'm definitely ethically opposed to a draft, but it's a bit naive to think that the US has ethical values or even ever has.
While the security concerns of certain countries have motivated compelled military service, I wonder if a side-effect is less division/greater intra-country tolerance? And would the U.S. benefit from instituting compelled military service, or perhaps, compelled national service, which doesn't necessarily entail holding a weapon.
Some cursory searching turned up this study from Brookings suggesting that it would. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/nationa...
And here's a paper - more of an opinion piece - arguing against it: https://www.cato.org/testimony/mandatory-universal-national-...