Good points...
Quick question on this topic: Why only religious exemptions from the draft instead of conscientious objections? Why (when the draft was in effect in the US) did one have to be a Quaker or Amish to avoid the draft? I know there were other exemptions, clergy, student, national guard, but why not just plain old, "I don't want to kill people" exemptions, why did that have to be linked to a pacifist religion? Why couldn't one be a pacifist without being religious? You still see this double standard today, religious exemptions for not getting your kids vaccinated, but if someone just doesn't want to do it and isn't religious... Well, it's just not right to deny them the exemption simply because they aren't religious.
Quick question on this topic: Why only religious exemptions from the draft instead of conscientious objections? Why (when the draft was in effect in the US) did one have to be a Quaker or Amish to avoid the draft? I know there were other exemptions, clergy, student, national guard, but why not just plain old, "I don't want to kill people" exemptions, why did that have to be linked to a pacifist religion? Why couldn't one be a pacifist without being religious? You still see this double standard today, religious exemptions for not getting your kids vaccinated, but if someone just doesn't want to do it and isn't religious... Well, it's just not right to deny them the exemption simply because they aren't religious.
