Hiding behind some ostentatious self-righteous rationalization or other while everyone else gets on with the distasteful/dangerous task of ensuring the freedom that you so cavalierly abuse.
.. and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
“Hiding behind some ostentatious self-righteous rationalization or other”
I agree that often they were full of it. But I don’t begrudge them as the draft is as clear a violation of the Constitution as ever there was. I can’t understand people who feel it their patriotic duty, for instance, to refuse to answer body census questionnaires but are perfectly fine being packed off and sent overseas to shoot at foreigners who pose absolutely no threat to national security (properly construed).
That’s pretending the defense of the Republic is sufficient grounds for slavery. I don’t think it is. They say the Constitution is not a suicide pact, but since there’s ni anti-suicide clause yes, it is. Nevermind, though, no condition such as the fate of free government can have reasonably been in doubt existed since the War of 1812. So the “distasteful/dangerous task of ensuring the freedom that you so cavalierly abuse” has nothing to do with serving in the military in the draft era, except as deterrence. But you can rely on volunteers for that.