Women registering for Selective Service

"The primary difference here is that car and health insurance only gives you money to help you go buy a new car or pay your medical bills or whatever. The Selective Service is a type of insurance that switches money for people's lives..." Selective Service is actually a very cheap insurance for the coverage it offers. Selective Service has a budget of $22,900,000 as of 2016, which as you know is a very small portion of the federal budget. Like life insurance no one actually wants to see the day they need life insurance but it's there when it's necessary. Selective Service's purpose is only "maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription." again big difference between a draft and Selective Service. "If they'll never use the soldiers in Selective Service, which is basically a draft with all the paperwork filled out ahead of the time, then why should it exist? Sure, it's good to have some of them, like with money in the bank or being insured, but these are people, with loved ones who don't want to hear about them being destroyed in some sort of raid..." Let's just say sh*t hits the fan WWIII is impending, we actually need a draft. With Selective Service the government is able to draft more efficiently helping maintain necessary manpower. Without Selective Service the government will be severely delayed in drafting necessary recruits, as a result our military personnel will be in even more danger defending the United Sates of America without enough manpower to fulfill missions. Without a draft at all, the military is unable to defend our country as we don't have enough manpower to do so. No one actually wants WWIII to happen, but no one can predict the future either. This is a very radical scenario, like life insurance what if a healthy 40 year old mother or father passes away with a family to take care of? It's not what we'd expect to happen but that's what life is full of surprises, with life insurance the family won't go bankrupt and live in the streets as a result of a death. It may be just money to you but money pays for the roof you live under, the food you consume, the doctor you see etc. "No, not all of them faced combat. But they all could have. That's my main issue, the possibility. Gambling is not a good way to decide who should be given what chance of being blown to bits... There is very little difference between the draft or selective service." "Could have" is very broad, Student X could've passed the test he needed to graduate HS but he didn't get it? Life is full of risks, the draft and the goal of Selective Service is immoral yes but it's a necessity as I have shown above. The allies could not have not have won WWII without a draft, would you rather surrender to the central powers who drafted men? Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was not nice to the countries they invaded. There is a HUGE difference between the draft AND Selective Service. The definition of Selective Service from the site itself ""To furnish manpower to the Defense Department during a national emergency, to manage alternative service for men classified as conscientious objectors, and to register, with only a few exceptions, all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants residing in the United States who are ages 18 through 25..." The definition of a draft: A system for selecting young men for compulsory military service, administered in the United States by the Selective Service System. "Violent jihadists are, according to many people today, the greatest threat to America. They would be who the draft would be getting people to go kill if it happened today. I did not know that all soldiers during the Afghanistan and Iraq war were volunteers, but doesn't that just strengthen my point that we don't need Selective Service? In order to hunt down the group that killed over 2,000 people in New York, all we needed were people who were up for it and willing to go do it. We don't need a draft, or any standby soldiers who have already signed up against their will to go do it. And that's what the Selective Service is, a group of standby, ready to go soldiers who didn't have a choice in the matter..." Which people? People may view that way but like I said we fought two wars simultaneously with an all volunteer force. We never had to implement a draft to combat terrorism, our government hasn't considered it either. The War on Terror does not correlate with Selective Service. "I did not know that all soldiers during the Afghanistan and Iraq war were volunteers" It's quite important we have not had a draft since 1973. Al Qaeda terror attacks in 9/11 killed 2996 people, it actually sparked patriotism. If you went to NYC following the attack you will see men and women packed around the recruiting center waiting to enlist. It does not prove your point, like I said the War on Terror does not correlate with Selective Service. No one ever proposed implementing the draft to combat terrorism. "We don't need a draft, or any standby soldiers who have already signed up against their will to go do it. And that's what the Selective Service is, a group of standby, ready to go soldiers who didn't have a choice in the matter..." Let's use the insurance example again, you have medical insurance but you haven't needed to even visit a doctor for 5 years now. So you cancel your medical insurance but what if you somehow wound up needing surgery? That's Selective Service, we haven't had a draft since 1973 but what if a scenario arises that causes it to be a necessity to defend the United States? I've explained above with a WWIII scenario. Also "ready to go soldiers" no. The status Soldier, Marine, Airman, Sailor and Coast Guardsman are earned. I wouldn't go around calling those who register for Selective Service "ready to go Soldiers." "who didn't have a choice in the matter" We all do things in life that we don't voluntarily want to do. Parents work jobs they hate because they have a family to support. Like I said in my statement above "The allies could not have not have won WWII without a draft, would you rather surrender to the central powers who drafted men? Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was not nice to the countries they invaded. " In WWII would you rather have drafted men to fight or would you rather surrender and let Nazi Germany do what they did during WWII? In total 56,125,262 counted people died as a result of WWII. In China 1,324,000 military personnel died along with 10,000,000 civilians. War is quite inhumane but I'd rather have the draft to protect my country if the need arises. As a famous quote goes "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."-George Santayana The draft is inhumane but the world is far from perfect. Sources: https://www.sss.gov... https://www.sss.gov... http://www.dictionary.com... http://www.hitler.org...