(February 9, 2017 at 10:16 am)Khemikal Wrote: How about volunteer service with clear and highly valuable benefits? Say, college tuition, va care, and hiring preference?That would be a better idea. If the service is compulsory, will we be paid? Where will the money come from to pay everyone who's required to serve? And if we won't be paid, well that's peonage.
Furthermore, there's no way the pentagon is going to let people choose civil service in lieu of military registration, so this would be civil service on top of military service.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
