Women registering for Selective Service

"You can't sign up for something that hasn't been non-existent for decades now. Of course the draft is immoral but it is has shown to be necessary often in history, again the last draft was in 1973. There is no guarantee it'll ever come back either. Look at Israel they're surrounded by enemies in all fronts, for the survival and existence of Israel they need to conscript Israelis citizens over the age of 18 who are Jewish, Druze or Circassian. If there was no conscription in Israel they would be overrun but hostiles in all fronts as shown in history." Israel is, like you say, surrounded by hostile nations. However, the United States is not. From what I have seen, the Draft wasn't even necessary during the forties let alone in recent times... "The world is subject to change constantly. After WWI people thought there would never be a conflict as devastating as that war, yet only 21 years later another World War erupts this time it's even more destructive than the first." That was a very special circumstance. If anybody else had been elected in Germany, it's doubtful that World War 2 would have reached the status it has, or would have happened at all. "The world will not remain the same, European nations have been heading towards a decline while countries in Asia especially China has been on the rise. As you know we aren't on the friendliest terms with China, who knows we could improve our relations over time or it could deteriorate. The world economy is reliant on each other, the 2008 recession in the US also devastated other nations as well." Yes, Europe has been heading downward in recent years. But could they really begin a war that we need to be involved in? And China, I will say, is probably the only real threat to America that could start a world war, aside from North Korea. But that isn't a reason to sign people's freedom to not join the military away... And it's doubtful that a third world war will begin in only 7 years, which is the period that Selective Service remains active for the individual who has signed up. "You overestimate the abilities of Canada and Europe. False, China has the world's biggest military, the US however has undeniable the world's strongest current military. Does that mean we'll keep our status as the world power? There are no guarantees, we didn't rise to our status as the world power through peaceful diplomacy either." Europe has been able to start, keep wars going and end them so many times in history. They were able to both fend off the power of the Nazi's, and the Nazi's were part of Europe. Canada is just one of the many countries who would be on the same side of America in another large scale war, Australia is one of those as well. While there is no guarantee that we'll maintain it forever, won't we be able to for the next 7 years? There's no way that it could go from not even a sign to total takeover in such a short time. Not in America anyway. "Very false, it was more than just two atomic bombs to end the war with Japan. Just one example look at the Battle of Okinawa." Yes, but when they realized that bombings weren't going to stop the Japanese, they took it up to another level. Would Japan have continued had those been the first two bombs? "Selective Service does not draft men and women, they only collect data for potential conscription. And no a draft does not mean there is a war, there has been a draft during peace time as well." True. So, if you gave a recipe to some cannibals /just in case/ they wanted to eat you, would you be comfortable with that? And the draft's use in peace time just makes it's pointlessness even more apparent in my eyes... "Who said people are going to get shot as a result of serving in the military? That's like saying because Billy drives a car he's going to get in a car crash. As a matter of fact more people die as a result of car crashes in comparison to death while deployed in the Middle East, the US military also loses more personnel as a result of car crashes. Does that mean we should ban cars?" You can /choose/ to not go in a car. And just because more people die in car crashes compared to people who die after being deployed in the middle east... I mean, not as many people are put in the middle east in comparison to the amount of people who drive cars. As a matter of fact, there are more soldiers than there were soldiers deployed in the middle east. Of course more are going to crash their cars. "No offense but you like so many other Americans have very limited knowledge on current events, history and the US military." In all honesty, I'm not even American.