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minus-squareFiniteBanjo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoDefending only yourself isn’t right, especially when you want all the benefits with none of the costs.
minus-squareThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoMen are the only ones paying this cost in the US
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAgain, there hasn’t been a draft in 51 years, all of our current armed forces are volunteers and about a fifth of them are women. If you want to extend the draft that is fine but it sounded more like you were opposed to the draft entirely.
Defending only yourself isn’t right, especially when you want all the benefits with none of the costs.
Men are the only ones paying this cost in the US
Again, there hasn’t been a draft in 51 years, all of our current armed forces are volunteers and about a fifth of them are women. If you want to extend the draft that is fine but it sounded more like you were opposed to the draft entirely.