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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
The thing he didn't mention was the fact that a disproportionate number of minorities volunteered. No one forced them to join. Exactly how is the volunteer method unfair? Seems to me that those who want to join get to join. The solution is simple if the all volunteer method is, in some ridiculous way, deemed unfair.
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Very true - for whatever reason, the choice was theirs and theirs alone.
That said, should a nation ever come to the stage where conscription is deemed neccessary, then that is the point where the rules need to be tightened so that everyone has an equal chance to be picked for service. Safeguards should also be written in to reduce the chances of 'rich kids with well connected parents' from either avoiding conscription or from influencing the posting (to some choice 'home based regiment').
This would mean overhauling the system of exemptions and deferment from service, so (for example), college students should not be exempt from service by virture of their enrollement in full time education, single men should not be preferred over married men, and so on.
And *of course* women should be subject to conscription too...
[ 11-07-2003, 09:54 AM: Message edited by: Skunk ]