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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Draft
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Date: 22 Dec 87 00:18:44 GMT
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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
>It's up to each person.  I don't think so.  I think a good army
>is one of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS that a nation have.  If
>a person is intellectually disposed, let that person serve
>where the need is the greatest, in the laboratories or research
>environments of the goverment.  However, there's not a hell
>of a lot of people who could serve their country better in
>a lab than out in the field, trudging through mud and fighting
>for their country.  Actually, this is my opinion.  I don't
>proclaim it to be fact.  And I mean percentage-wise, not an
>absolute number.

And besides lab and research jobs there's medical support, office
work, painting the johns etc etc...

What's the point of this tirade? To raise a guaranteed slave force
soas not to have to pay the going rate for these jobs? What in the
world is the romantic attraction some people have for -compulsory-
service?

And if your argument is that paying the going rate for these jobs
would raise the cost of taxes too high then perhaps you don't deserve
defending, you obviously don't even want to pay a fair price for it.

If it's not important to you why should it be important to anyone else?

Slavery is not a good idea.