Re: The Axis Grows
"Aaron J. Seigo" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 16 July 2003 03:36, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > That is why I don't support a draft unless national security is > immediately and directly at stake (i.e. the armies are lining up on the > border). given a choice between a mandatory draft (which may or may not end up including you, but certainly would include 10s of thousands of your countrymen) and personally volunteering in the hope that enough people would do so to make such a draft unnecessary (or at least save one or two unwilling people from being drafted), which would you choose? i have no hidden point to make with that question, it just came up in my head when reading your reply. personally, i'd probably not volunteer unless i felt there was a great urgency, rightness and unavoidability to the conflict (such as your "armies lined up at the border" scenario). otherwise i'd probably even resist a drafting. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Fdae1rcusafx20MRAsSzAJ9qPIXzZA+m5eyTyjzdjRQZ/QjPdACePAg2 gHsK/CBWm4kmg5FQeaxzkkA= =3qBw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.