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Originally Posted by xepherys
Why is it that there's an assumption that draft = fight? Draft can equal supply, or intelligence or accounting or HR or legal or nursing or any number of other things. You wouldn't become a state-side resident medic and help injured soldiers?
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I'm not qualified for any of those things. Nor is anyone in my family.
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You'd rather flee to another country? For shame! It's one thing to be against killing others, it's quite another to take your anti-violent beliefs out on injured soldiers who may have had no other option.
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How would I be doing this? Am I harming anybody by not treating injured soldiers right now?
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Enlist with a contract clause to never be deployed overseas. In times of need, the appropriate general officers will sign off on just about damned anything if it means more warm bodies. Sounds way better than being drafted and FORCED into something you don't want to do.
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Well, there's high praise. I'd be a "warm body", not a person with individual worth. Then again, that would be little different than how things are now.
And by the way, I have served the people of my country as a teacher.
Gilda