How does your country perceive war?

[Ecks]

I bet if there were a draft everybody would sober the fuck up right quick. Not that I'm advocating for a draft or anything.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Ecks

I bet if there were a draft everybody would sober the fuck up right quick. Not that I'm advocating for a draft or anything.

My father (in one of his zany ideas) advocates bringing back the draft (in an actual automatic way as in the past, not in the current "well we might use it maybe if like China invaded us") so that it won't be only poor people fighting these wars they insist on declaring every few years (of course, most rich people who wanted to probably got out of Vietnam, but supposedly not alll). Presumably, at least some rich people would get drafted, which would increase anti-war sympathy at home amongst the high and mighty who can actually affect such things.

On the other hand, forcing people to go to war is wrong, imo, so there's that.

Originally Posted by Professor Smarmiarty

I'll do it. The allied war effort was funded by massive exploitation of Africa, by mass crackdowns in colonies- particularly in India, by forced conscription, by financial and political double dealing to extend the war so as to profit more from it, and a vast demonisation of minorities and alternative thinking. We're still recovering from the immense backlash of World War 2 in that it empowered a particularly narrow range of philosophies and values as right and correct.

This is precisely where the "necessary evil" argument comes in though, because on the other hand, NAZIS.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Originally Posted by Magus

This is precisely where the "necessary evil" argument comes in though, because on the other hand, NAZIS.

Thanks for summing up the exact view I'm railing against.