Read your own posts: in the first, you refer to the draft as “involuntary servitude” and your next post describe military service as a simply a career with lifetime benefits.
You’re talking to a combat veteran that lost friends in war and who lost part of his right leg to a machine gun bullet. It isn’t just a career with dandy benefits - it’s a risky, dangerous mission for the young people who take it up for their nation. And the draft isn’t “involuntary servitude”. It’s a national obligation for men of the appropriate age.
You apparently believe that service in war is just for some and not all.
Maybe I should have worded the question differently. I thought I was asking a question by saying "is it not?" at the end of the sentence. Silly me, I should have known better. I sincerely apologize. I also added the "benefits" part at the very end of a sentence which had other reasons in which people join the Military, & you may not be aware of this, but usually when people list several things w/in a sentence it is oftentimes done in terms of priority, w/ the last one being the least important...& that's where the benefits part was written, at the very end. There's no need to be upset about that, 'cuz whether you are willing to admit it or not, people DO join the Military for that reason, & whether the %'age of that is high or low, I'm not sure.
When it comes to the definition of "involuntary servitude", I will go back to the people who wrote the 13th Amendment in order to find out for myself, thank you very much. I myself am an Originalist by nature, & I believe that the Constitution should be followed to the letter, exactly as those who wrote it intended. BTW...since the phrase "involuntary servitude" is completely separate from slavery & jail/prison incarceration in the 13th Amendment, WHAT ELSE could it be used for? What other types of involuntary servitude are there? Why would a forced Military Draft NOT be among the items that were prohibited by the Involuntary servitude Clause? Are Military Drafts voluntary or involuntary? I'm not taking sides, I'm just asking an honest question that you may or may not be able to handle.
THANK YOU for your service.