Kevin_Kennedy
Defend Liberty
- Aug 27, 2008
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So you see no difference in being kidnaped and forced to work on someone's farm and being conscripted, along with other able-bodied young men, to defend your country against foreign invasion.Serving your country is not servitude. It is service. If you don't understand the difference something is missing in your basic education.
So if a private person kidnaps me and forces me to work on their farm that's slavery. But if the government takes me and forces me to fight for them that's "service." I'm sorry but the difference between these scenarios is escaping me.
Is the man who kidnaped you and is forcing you to work on his farm also taking everything your family owns and raping your kid sister? Consider the fact that such things are what happens when a country is invaded and occupied. Maybe that will help you to understand the difference.
Nope. As a libertarian I don't give the state special treatment. Conscription is slavery, taxation is theft, and war is mass-murder. If I'm truly free then I have the right to decide whether I work on somebody's farm, or whether I fight in my government's wars. There is no difference in principle in either scenario.
If that's the case then I'd have been fighting on my own without the government having to enslave me.