United States Selective Service System

I am a libertarian, a constitutionalist, and a believer in civil liberties. Our current Selective Service System violates libertarian values, the constitution, and general civil liberties. Alternatives are impossible for various reasons, and I would propose that the solution would be to not have any sort of draft. Fighting in the military should be volunteer endeavor. People in the military should be paid heavily for their sacrifice, but having a complete volunteer system forces the nation to only go to war when enough people from the population feel the calling to sacrifice their lives. Forced military service in general is immoral, and I will get to that later. Our Selective Service System is not a good policy. It’s not constitutional - but making the changes to it to make it constitutional would be problematic It is safe to say that the United States Constitution is one of the greatest documents in the history of mankind. I, as an American who is proud of my country, am allowed to have that opinion. In the Constitution, we have the fourteenth amendment. Section I of this amendment says this: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (1) You may ask: “What does this have to do with the Selective Service System”? That is a great question. The Selective Service System only applies to men. Only men can be placed in the draft. If you are a man who refuses to register, you may be subject to hefty fines up to $250,000 or imprisonment or both (2). Also, your right to vote may be removed depending on the legal situation of your state. Because the draft only applies to men, this policy violates the concept of being equal under the law. A woman can vote just because she has a vagina, but because a man doesn’t have a vagina, he must theoretically register for the draft. If he doesn’t want to register for the draft, and if he doesn’t want to risk going to war, he can have his right to vote taken away. That is not equal protection under the law because a woman gets the right to vote just because she has biological features a man doesn’t have. You could say the solution to this problem of equality under the law is to force women into the draft system, but that would be illogical. Women are often biologically less capable in the field of battle than men, and this isn’t putting down women. There are women who are just as capable physically, and the vetting process for the military should be skill based rather than a social experiment. Therefore, the only logical solution is to abolish the Selective Service System and any potential draft because there’s no fair way to do it. The idea of a draft is immoral Let’s take out the woman and man dynamic for a moment, and let’s analyze this from a moral perspective. The government forces people to sign up for Selective Service System. If you resist and don’t sign up, you risk prison. If you use self-defence and resist prison, you run the risk of being shot at. Therefore, the government is technically using violence to force you into the military. Some people in the United States find killing wrong on any circumstance, I am not one of them, but forcing people into the military can violate people’s religious liberty as well. And once again, the government is technically using violence and force to impose this. This is immoral of our government in my mind. (1) https://www.law.cornell.edu... (2) https://www.sss.gov...