The Military Draft should be abolished

Contention 1: Rights of the Government vs. the Rights of the people. I didn't drop my opponent's contention. I only renamed the contention into something else showing how the federal government trumps the individual. My opponent states that I have to prove how this works in multiple cases besides just the United States, but there is a long list of countries that have the draft from Iraq to Iran, Pure to Chile, and from China to Afghanistan. If you want a greater list of which nations have the draft then I will refur you to this link. (http://teenadvice.about.com...) Subpoint 1: Utilitarianism I couldn't think of where else to put this, but this argument actually works for my favor. Though the US does have a large volunteer military force it didn't always use to be that way. The federal government here in the US used to be very week as it had to depend on the donation of troops and funding from the states during the time of the AOC. The main duty of the government is to protect the people living within it's boarders and Thomas Hobbes was a firm advocate of such a theory. (http://en.wikipedia.org...) We can see that for Utilitarianism that the government has a duty to protect it's people and in order to do so the government must maintain a large standing Army even in times of peace to defend against foreign foes. During times of war it may be necessary to use the draft to put on the battlefield in order to protect it's citizens back at home. It's obvious that in World War 2, only war could stop Adolph Hitler and if we needed to draft people for the war we would have needed to as we saw that appeasement did not work. With the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few we can truely see that the needs of Jews suffering in concentration camps outweigh rebellious college kids. To quote President Ronald Reagan, "The Govenrment's duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Contention 2: Draft ends wars quicker. This is not a contradiction as you see in Contention 1, Subpoint 1, that the government's first duty to the people is to protect them. They do this via the draft and maintaining their military. When you apply the theory of Thomas Hobbes it does not matter how the government treats it's people, but as long as they're saffe that's all that matters. It can be anything from a 1984 society to a modern day US. The reason people are against the draft is, because they hold individualism to much and think of themselves not the group as a whole. The government does the opposite and thinks for the group as a whole and has to protect the group. When the draft was last done it is done by a draft lottery where they place people's birthday's on balls and put out so many balls (say around 150 for a nice even number) a year and if they get your birthday you go. This is a very random thing and they are not just going through the phone book and saying Joe, Jerry, and Jeff are goin g to be drafted. (http://en.wikipedia.org...(1969)) My opponent has not actually refuted my orginial point here so please extend both wars across the board. Contention 3: Draft mixes Society My opponent is wrong when it comes to the battlefield. Outside of the battlefield all of the military is paid the same, Privates from the upper class are paid the same as a Private off the streets. They also have great benefits like paid for housing, food, transportation, health/dental care! (http://www.militaryfactory.com...) The military gives you great types of benefits and will even pay for your college as stated in the post 9/11 GI bill. As you can see it doesn't matter where you come from in the military you will be treated the same and will be given outstanding benefits! In conclusion, one can see that I have negated all of Pro's points and have defended my own points. His own Contention even works against him. Thus the resolution is negated.