Reply #91: Yes, and we all know how willfully ignorant I choose to be.

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If one is forced to something against one's will, and one is put into a situation in which one has no true control over one's destiny, then it's slavery. Whether it's the more mild household slavery of ancient Rome or the more drastic and violent servant slavery of Rome, Egypt, or the American South.

To deny people choices over their own fate, under penalty of imprisonment or possibly death if they DO try to make a choice for their own life, is slavery, no matter how much you pay them or how well you feed them or how nice the Hummer they get to drive around in, and mo matter how temporary the situation might be.

Perhaps you are stuck in a paradigm of the worst of the American South's version of slavery, and don't have a breadth of knowledge of slavery over history necessary to understand all forms of forced servitude. If this is the case, then the fault does not lie with you that you don't understand how forced conscription is as wrong as and no different than slavery. Sure, we give it a nicer name. But it's still a form of slavery.