I just love it when people cut & paste with no comments. Are you condemning this act? Supporting it? What’s the deal?
“I just love it when people cut & paste with no comments.”
My comment was: “Looks like we’ve had compulsory service for a long time.”
This is a “Conservative” site on which a lot of posters refer back to the Founders (not that I’d say everyone thinks they were 100% correct).
That the people of the time of the Founding of our country believed that compulsory service (the militia) was legitimate ought to weigh into our thinking on compulsory service (conscription) today.
A lot of discussion on conscription (compulsory service) hangs up on the Vietnam era. Some such includes WWII and the 1950’s, and a lessor amount the Civil War. Compulsory service has a longer history, going back to the beginning of the United States, and that should be noted.
Maybe I missed something, but I don’t recall hearing that at the time of the Founding there were any significant arguments over compulsory service in the militia, except maybe over religious and other exemptions. And it certainly wasn’t because they weren’t willing to argue, so why would it have been? Was it a settled notion that one owed military service to one’s nation/State/community/family? If so, how did such a notion get “unsettled”?
Do I condemn compulsory service or support it? I have mixed feelings.
I also didn’t see where you complained to the people who posted articles by cut and paste, without commenting, including Sub-Driver who posted this one.