If a citizen believes their nation is worth defending, then no Draft would be necessary; they would serve the military without such an ordinance. Yet, if a citizen is an individual, if they can make their own choices, if they have a mind to think and a heart to feel -- if this citizen is a person with humane and rational initiatives -- then the Draft would be ludicrous. If a citizen opposes the war, then the Draft would force them to kill those in a foreign land. If a man was forced into the same room as his as friend or lover, and he was told that he had to kill that person or be killed himself, what option would the humane person choose? Death. Those who refuse to join the military, those who oppose the Draft, these Conscientious Objectors, are called cowards and traitors. If they are sent to war and die because they refused to fight, then they are also called fools yet they are nothing but martyrs of the creed of humanity -- members of the force of affection. It is easy to kill a person when filled with Nationalist dogma and bigotry. Yet it is unavailingly difficult to kill a person; they are a conscious being. Perhaps separated by nationality, two soldiers are still two people, two individuals. They live on the same planet and feel the same suffering. It is even more difficult to refuse to fight, to refuse to kill. It is difficult to be a member in dissent of opinion, to be defiant to a Totalitarian government that desires its children to grow up to be dead soldiers. At the threat of physical violence, it turns men into monsters: burning villages, destroying people, annihilating culture, killing human beings. The Draft is the basis of sadistic brutality and cruelty. It is a thing destitute of any merit or virtue. It cannot be said to have done anything, other than rob individuals of their lives and liberty.

www.punkerslut.com

For Life,