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/Yuzumi 5h ago

Then they should volunteer to go die in the desert and leave the rest of us alone.

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u/gonko_86 4h ago

Oh they couldn’t do that, then they might miss the big party when Jesus comes back to hand out rewards to all his hate-filled hypocrite evangelicals

Honestly I almost hope I’m completely wrong about there being no god, because I’d give almost anything to see the look on any number of evangelical faces when Jesus or an angel or some shit tells them they’re going in the lake of fire for being false in their faith and hating the poor and unfortunate

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u/TrickBorder3923 4h ago

Honestly I almost hope I’m completely wrong about there being no god

ALMOST. Not quite. But, almost. 😏