12-04-2016, 12:36 PM
(12-04-2016, 12:30 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The draft is not slavery for the same reason that taking taxes is not stealing.
Two things:
1. Why, if you know, are there questions in another thread about you being banned?
2. Government expenditures are, at some level, inevitable, and so taxes at some level are also. An army is not inevitable or necessary. (Costa Rica, for example, does not have an army.) If a government chooses to maintain an army it can recruit and hire soldiers or mercenaries, it is not required to conscript them. So, while the government may like your argument, I do not.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
