Poll: The Draft

[Skeleon]

I'd either run or shoot myself in the foot to get out of active duty.

They can tell if the wound is self inflicted.

You get punished for doing that.

What if I get a buddy to shoot me in the leg?

 

[Eldarion]

I'd either run or shoot myself in the foot to get out of active duty.

They can tell if the wound is self inflicted.

You get punished for doing that.

What if I get a buddy to shoot me in the leg?

They will probably see thru your story.

Where did you get that wound? How?

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

I'd either run or shoot myself in the foot to get out of active duty.

They can tell if the wound is self inflicted.

You get punished for doing that.

They can only tell if the wound is done at point-blank range... If you were clever about it, you could find away round that.

 

[SilverHammerMan]

I'd either run or shoot myself in the foot to get out of active duty.

They can tell if the wound is self inflicted.

You get punished for doing that.

Touche. Oh well, I guess I'd have to got for something a little more elaborate. Like maybe I'd do drugs before they administer the drug test (I'm assuming they do a drug test) they'd never take me if they thought I might be a crackhead.

 

[FalloutJack]

Let's see here... I live in America, so it's not a matter of IF my coountry would go to war. The question of what I would do if there was suddenly a draft is at stake. Well, I can sum up my answer in two words.

O CANADA!

 

[gRiM_rEaPeRsco]

i would run, wars are usually about money/land/oil etc and im not willing to die for that, but mabye i would fight if it was to defend the country, but britain is so shit its hardly worth defending

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Let's see here... I live in America, so it's not a matter of IF my coountry would go to war. The question of what I would do if there was suddenly a draft is at stake. Well, I can sum up my answer in two words.

O CANADA!

To you sir, I would give my last cookie.




But I just ate it. Oh well...

 

[Player 2]

Go medical issues. Suck it healthy people.

 

[bombchu]

Hide, most definitely. I'm a girl anyway but I am thoroughly unfit for any sort of warfare-ness. I can't even do one regular push-up.

And, most importantly, I don't wanna.

 

[DrDeath3191]

I think I'd go. I'm not certain though, as the situation could call for a different course of action.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Because risk is a fundamental part of life, so you might as well risk your life to preserve your quality of life - your right to vote, your property, your loved ones. It's nothing more than the right to self-defence taken to a society-wide scale. If the war is unjust, then yes, or if the war is pointless, certainly, but arguing that there is truly nothing worth fighting for implies nothing more than a detached nihilism that stems from fundamental psychological weakness.

That still has tinges of patriotism: You're not fighting in self-defense, you're still fighting for a country.
And patriotism never made any sense to me either.

Especially when you can just move.

And there are plenty of things worth fighting for: Me, myself, and I.
I would kill to protect myself.
Hell, I would kill if I thought there was a reasonable chance that I could, at some future point, be in danger from the person I just killed.

Valid point. However, assuming we are dealing with the hypothetical World War Three scenario, and, put bluntly, if China did defeat America, probably because a lot of people were of the same opinion of yourselves, then you, and I (a Brit), would probably run out of places to hide eventually. Yes, we could move, but eventually we would run out of places to move to. And a that point, the standard of living is going to plummet. We're going to not be able to say what we want, not buy nice things, not do a lot of things we can currently.


Max, what I'm saying is that, well, fighting for the status quo, in certain scenarios, is fighting in your own selfinterest. You would not like to live under an authoritarian government, and neither would I. And, as intelligent and dangerous as we both were, two, or even two hundred, or twenty thousand such men aren't going to make a difference as individuals. It was only at war, where those twenty thousand who didn't heed the call, that we could have made a difference.

 

[TimeLord]

Go medical issues. Suck it healthy people.

Pretty much this

 

[GHMonkey]

In reality nobody likes the draft being shot at isn't fun
it basically mean the war is already lost
sending huge waves to go and get killed doesn't help the economy
military personal hate conscripts because they are completly unreliable and destroy morale created by the elitism of military forces and those who passed the training to join

Might as well fight in the draft death in battle is preferable to being slaughterd when the enemy invade and kill everyone

dude, WWII? we did not lose that and there was a draft i am pretty damn certain

 

[JRCB]

It depends on the war. I will only go to war if I truly believe in the cause. So most of the time, no.

 

[kewlrabbit]

Depends. If it's a war I believe in, then I'd probably go. If, however, it's a war we shouldn't be in in the first place, like another war for oil, I'm out.

 

[Aunel]

I have one thing to say

I am the next Jack Churchill
and I am dutch, so even more crazy, and instead of bagpipes, I will bring a bass, and Metal to the front

to all you unbelievers that do not know of Jack Churchill:
He signed up in the second world war to the Commandos, because it sounded dangerous and with dangerous comes fun.
He made the only kill in the war with a longbow.
One of his weapons was a sword, and it was not a pansy sword, it was a huge claymore, which he used to devastating results.
when all of his squad got killed by trivial things like gun fire, and Nazi's where coming up to his position, he started playing "will ye no come back again" on his bagpipes, which he carried next to his claymore.

In the Concentration camps, he got bored, and walked out, got captured, got bored again, and left again, got back to Britain, to request to be sent back again, but to his dismay, the war was over and his reaction was "If it weren't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going for another 10 years"

That's Jack Churchill.