Should the Selective Service System be abolished?

[Indy Texas]

Selective Service System

[ElectionsGuy]

Yes

[nolesfan2011]

yes, it's archaic and ineffective

[TNF]

Yes. Working class kids should not have the possibility of being forced to murder for Wall Street hanging over their heads most of their lives.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yes and no.  There's no real chance we'd be making use of it anytime soon, and if we'd ever did have need to engage in a draft in the future, it wouldn't take long to set one up.  So there's no point in requiring draft registration right now.  But as a contingency plan, maintaining the system on paper with a couple of people keeping the plan up to date is fairly low-cost option and provides a position you could promote or transfer an incompetent bureaucrat into to get em out of the way.

[Simfan34]

Yes. Working class kids should not have the possibility of being forced to murder for Wall Street hanging over their heads most of their lives.

There's literally no example of this. There's also no harm in keeping it in the case things were to go pear shaped.

[TNF]

Yes. Working class kids should not have the possibility of being forced to murder for Wall Street hanging over their heads most of their lives.

There's literally no example of this. There's also no harm in keeping it in the case things were to go pear shaped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Absolutely.

[dead0man]

At this point it's pretty meaningless, so sure, why not?

[IceSpear]

Yes.

[TDAS04]

Of course. 

[Flake]

Yes. Working class kids should not have the possibility of being forced to murder for Wall Street hanging over their heads most of their lives.

There's literally no example of this. There's also no harm in keeping it in the case things were to go pear shaped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

World war one happened because a bunch of crazy nationalists shot an archduke and everyone pointed fingers at the other person. They all got very mad (and this was in a time where war was seen as a good thing) so they all decided to go to war, and a lot of people died.

But how did wall street cause any of it?

[free my dawg]

Yes. Working class kids should not have the possibility of being forced to murder for Wall Street hanging over their heads most of their lives.

There's literally no example of this. There's also no harm in keeping it in the case things were to go pear shaped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

[Sopranos Republican]

Yes. Working class kids should not have the possibility of being forced to murder for Wall Street hanging over their heads most of their lives.

There's literally no example of this. There's also no harm in keeping it in the case things were to go pear shaped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

[Simfan34]

How were either of those caused by Wall Street?

[AggregateDemand]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Sure. Wall Street bankers couldn't live with their cash if they thought a bunch of [60s-era racial epithet] in South Vietnam were communists. Please.

Bankers haven't started wars or benefited from wars since the age of mercantilism, when banking was conducted in specie and other hard currencies.....unless you subscribe to the theories of Adolf Hitler.

[free my dawg]

How were either of those caused by Wall Street?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton#1990s

[Sopranos Republican]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

Sure. Wall Street bankers couldn't live with their cash if they thought a bunch of [60s-era racial epithet] in South Vietnam were communists. Please.

Bankers haven't started wars or benefited from wars since the age of mercantilism, when banking was conducted in specie and other hard currencies.....unless you subscribe to the theories of Adolf Hitler.

tl; dr

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

The reductionist simplification of the complex interplay of the military, state department, politicans, our allies, our businesses, our population, and our media, amongst of other sources of input into a "bankers conspiracy" is the same type of morally and metaphysically bankrupt political analysis that leads to absurdities. like the Dolchstoßlegende and Leninism, in addition to other examples of gobbledygook like the fact that the aforementioned groups often act in accordance with one another, witness WWII and the Cold War, in addition to further hurdles to the theory such as the semiotic and ontological meaningless of defining many of these groups, the overlap and contradictions within these groups (leading to the previous point), the debate over the positivism that allows one to make fact based statements like these, the controversial Marxian and Conflict Theory based approach that defines statements like those, and many other philosophical and scientifically problems with the conflict theories that are espoused by the far-left; the only reason that they are taken seriously by otherwise smart people even prima facie with all of their radical and extremist assumptions about the world that any serious liberal would have to reject out of hand for their wrongfullness and ideological bankruptcy is that social studies academia has always had a section of the left wing that intentionally segregates themselves and has a perennial case of edginess (witness men like Finkelstein and Foucault).

[politicallefty]

Yes, most definitely. But, as long as it's around, I think women should also have to register as well.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

If the US is invaded there will be enough volunteers.  I'll be fighting guerrilla warfare against whoever the attackers are.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I've always believed it should be illegal for the government to enforce compulsory military service under any circumstances, and I always will.

[RogueBeaver]

No. Might need it later if exceptional circumstances (I'm agnostic on conscription, but certainly have no moral objections) arise.