conscription?

Question

i have a policy debate on conscription and im negative. what should i say in my speech?

Answer 1

as an ex military man, i feel that conscription is useless,i will die to defend my country why, for the freedom to choose to do just that,exersise my right to be protected by a service that is proffessional in its way it conducts itself, gone are the days when the second liutenant blew his whistle and we charged the dreaded hun. without conscription you have an army that sees itself as a proffessional army,with conscription all you are doing is arming the thugs that are already on our streets ,conscription for the police force try it there first,just maybe you might see a change in the attitude of someone who has to attend a shooting or a motorist killed by an overhead dropped brick from a motorway bridge, let them attend the post mortem, see the human suffering, before training them how to shoot to kill. regards LF

Answer 2

It is economically pretty useless. Just when you get somebody trained so that they can make a useful contribution they leave. Professionals are much more effective and better motivated. Forget the rubbish about "fair" and "democracy" what professionals do is protect those things. Of course it is a precondition that governments will not do stupid things that give foreign governments the idea that they can do something that will no longer be resisted. A good example of this going wrong was when the British government allowed the Argentinians to think that they could invade the Falklands with impunity. It took professionals to recover the territories and restore democracy, and I might add lives were lost on both sides.

Answer 3

Conscripted armies violate the spirit of democracy, which is about maintaining freedom of choice for all, as much as possible. In addition, draftees make poor soldiers, as the US discovered during Vietnam.

Answer 4

That unless it is fair, and *everyone* is eligible (no waivers or special handling), including those who are privileged, it is discriminatory to the poor and minorities.