[dirtboy]

Are you quite sure you wish to score a meager political point by comparing military service to slavery?

[garyb]

If a person is required to perform a service for, say, two years, for a substandard wage, is it not slavery?

[society-by-contract]

Are you quite sure you wish to score a meager political point by comparing military service to slavery? If military service is not coerced it is not slavery. However, coerced conscription *is* slavery.