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Originally Posted by ikalugin
I think draft is defendable if we assume that people have the freedom to vote against it at the ballot box or by leaving the country.
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Problem with voting option is that in modern democracies people are rarely entrusted to make this kind of decisions. In normal circumstances you cast vote for your preferred liar and then hope that 1) your candidate gets elected, 2) that your representative does what he or she promised and 3) that large enough majority of representatives share his or her objectives.
In my opinion expectation that person should move abroad to avoid draft is unreasonable. That "choice" would include leaving behind your family and friends (not everyone may want or be able to leave with you) and no foreign country has obligation A) to allow you to stay and B) to allow you to work.
I personally can accept conscription and draft when they are strictly restricted to defence of homeland. Any other wars abroad must be waged with volunteers.