Resolved: Military Conscription is unjust.

Military Conscription is just one more thing that is taking away our human rights. "Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man's fundamental rightï¿½€"the right to lifeï¿½€"and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man's life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time." Therefore my affirmation of the resolution: ï¿½€œMilitary Conscription is unjustï¿½€ï¿½. Definitions: Conscription: When the government claims a man's life belongs to the state and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in any way they wish. Military Conscription: When the government claims a man's life belongs to the state and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Slavery: A form of forced labor in which people are considered to be, or treated as, the property of others. Preview: My contentions are in the form of a syllogism and are as follows: 1. All Conscription is Slavery. 2. All Slavery Is Unjust. 3. Therefore All Conscription Is Unjust. Contentions: 1. All Conscription is Slavery. A. ï¿½€œThe most immoral contradictionï¿½€"in the chaos of today's anti-ideological groupsï¿½€"is that of the so-called "conservatives," who posture as defenders of individual rights, particularly property rights, but uphold and advocate the draft. By what infernal evasion can they hope to justify the proposition that creatures who have no right to life, have the right to a bank account? A slightly higherï¿½€"though not much higherï¿½€"rung of hell should be reserved for those "liberals" who claim that man has the "right" to economic security, public housing, medical care, education, recreation, but no right to life, or: that man has the right to livelihood, but not to life." If we have no right to life and are just property of the government what else is conscription but slavery? B. Slavery is ï¿½€œA form of forced labor in which people are considered to be, or treated as, the property of others.ï¿½€ï¿½ And conscription is ï¿½€œWhen the government claims a man's life belongs to the state and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in any way they wish.ï¿½€ï¿½ All conscription is the state claiming that itï¿½€™s people are itï¿½€™s property to do what they wish with, and slavery is forced labor where people are considered the property of others in this case the government. Therefore all conscription is Slavery. 2. All Slavery Is Unjust. A. Slavery is Unjust even if you just look at the definition of slavery, ï¿½€œA form of forced labor in which people are considered to be, or treated as, the property of others.ï¿½€ï¿½ Every man in the world no matter what his ethnicity or his condition was created equal. Therefore one man saying that he is good enough to be the master of another man, or a government saying that they should have the power to force their population to do what they want, is unjust. B. Other than being morally wrong it is also Biblically wrong. The says that in Gods eyes all men are equal and that one is not greater than the other. 3. Therefore All Conscription Is Unjust. A. "If the state may force a man to risk death or hideous maiming and crippling, in a war declared at the state's discretion, for a cause he may neither approve of nor even understand, if his consent is not required to send him into unspeakable martyrdomï¿½€"then, in principle, all rights are negated in that state, and its government is not man's protector any longer. What else is there left to protect?ï¿½€ï¿½ B. First of all conscription is slavery, this Iï¿½€™ve already proved. Second as we all agree all slavery, no matter one form, the concept of one man or body of men owning other human lives is immoral and unjust. Therefore all conscription, including military conscription, Is UNJUST.