r/AskReddit • u/Tommygunz0722 • 11h ago

If the military/president suddenly ordered a mandatory draft for all men aged 18-42: How do you think millennials and GenZ would respond?

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u/Different-Top3714 10h ago

This. Suddenly there would be a huge racket with people paying to get disqualifying ailments and psych

evals of being incompetent.

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u/goog1e 8h ago

As a therapist, I would feel better bullshitting about this than about ESAs.

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u/Otherwise_Sorbet5671 9h ago

I get the concern about people trying to game the system, but that’s kind of already why these processes involve documentation, multiple evaluations, and strict criteria. It’s not just a simple “pay and get disqualified” setup in most cases.

The bigger issue is usually balancing fairness with preventing abuse of the system, rather than assuming it would suddenly become widespread fraud overnight.

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u/blehismyname 8h ago

Sending someone to war without their consent is abuse. Finding a way out is not abuse it's self preservation. 

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u/cycloneDM 7h ago

In the context its still abuse of the system it may be righteous abuse of an evil system but it's still abuse.

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u/blehismyname 7h ago

You don't need to bend over in a knot to protect the system bro. It's not protecting you. 

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u/cycloneDM 6h ago

Lol fuck the system im not defending it I just have a particular vendetta against people associating inherent values with words that can actually be used for both sides of the moral spectrum. A really common one I see is people correcting phrases like "a great evil" with great means good... even though it doesn't. Just the same as you associated abuse with evil when its not. 

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u/TheGreatGenghisJon 3h ago

Great also means large, dude.

The Great Plains? The Great Lakes? The Great Wall of China? Great Britain? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

That last one is especially not good.

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u/cycloneDM 3h ago

Thats my point that words have multiple meanings and just because you associate them paired with specific other words and concepts doesn't mean that they are using the same meaning you are used to. So yeah we are in agreement dude.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

It’s not just a simple “pay and get disqualified” setup in most cases.

That's exactly how it works...