What would you do if you were drafted?

[Brooker]

I guess I just don't understand how people could fight for a cause they don't believe in. It seems that some people wouldn't even care about why they were fighting, they'd just do it because they were told to. And I guess a military would need people like that, it's just that it's so different from my way of thinking that I have a hard time understanding it.

Being forced to fight would be like a potential death sentence for something you want no part of. It would be as if your life doesn't belong to you, but rather belongs to your government. And that's a scary thought. One of the things I like about my country as that its citizens are able to make decisions about what they want to do with their lives. A draft would be very contrary to that. But they haven't enacted a draft yet, so I guess there's no point in getting all worked up over something that may or may not happen. I'm not opposed to people joining the military, but I am opposed to people being forced to.

 

[Doc]

Personally I'm not going to get myself killed just for my country. If I'm going to die by force, than I'd rather do it by forcing a gun upon myself than having the government do it for me.

Doc

 

[Xkavar]

I have a plan.

While my mom works on obtaining Canadian or New Zealand citizenship (as her sons are Hawaiian and somewhat decended from those folk) I enlist. My little brother weighs too much for them to consider him, and he's currently underage.

I don't want to go, but damned if they'll take both of us to fight somewhere. My little bro will continue the lineage.

 

[Nordsee]

Depends on fighting for what. I would not go into war to defend other countries. I only would go into war to defend my own country and volk and I would fight to death. Don't want my country being destroyed and/or conquered (again).

I probably won't go to other countries to fight for freedom or anything else there while mine is not in danger (for example Afghanistan, Iraq, south eastern Europe). I don't feel like it's my business.

 

[last-resort]

You forgot to include "I have already served voluntarily" and "I have already served voluntarily and am past recall age"

Also Change: 'I would volunteer before being drafted' to 'I would/did volunteer before being drafted'