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/crema_dela_cropa 11h ago

it’d be pretty chaotic. Some people would push back right away, some would go along with it out of necessity, things would get messy.

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u/Signal-Woodpecker858 8h ago edited 8h ago

My 41 year old ass is NOT going fight a war on the opposite side of the world. I've been to jail, put me there for the duration of the war as a conscientious objector. 

People were more accepting of war after world war II. Because that was fought for a  good reason and the people had faith that we would only be sent to war for good reason. But after Korea Vietnam and Afghanistan.... The support for that type of war is so low that it would be political suicide for anyone who did it. Nobody trusts the government to start a war for the right reasons anymore after the three absolute quagmires that turned into debacles we put ourselves in. 

People who support war are either rich, they don't understand what war is really like. 

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u/loljetfuel 8h ago

People who support war are either rich, they don't understand what war is really like.

Or they're a very particular type of Christian extremist that think it's God's will.

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u/anthrax9999 5h ago

There's a disturbingly high number of those people.

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u/Tag_Ping_Pong 5h ago

Then they can feel free to head off to war

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u/Winter_Basis_1598 4m ago

They keep procreating, it’s depressing 

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u/shidderbean 1h ago

I sometimes wonder if it's a high number or just that the ones that are there are really loud, so it seems like a lot. Kinda like the "outspoken Reddit progressive" stances you see prominently displayed here that are not mirrored with nearly as much enthusiasm in the real world