Hypothetically if you could be drafted.

Myself, I'd probably fail the physical on account of poor health if it happened today, but if I did get in, I'd try to get a non combat role if possible, like a jeep driver or cook or something. I don't really know how the draft process actually works beyond what I saw in Captain America.

Cry myself to sleep. Then I'd "volunteer" to do intelligence or something, since my body can't handle gore at all, I'd be unfit for duty.

I'd be rejected for medical reasons, but if they didn't care about that, I'd probably try to get involved in some sort of Logistics role as that's whats most likely to appeal to me. 6"3' clumsy oafs with unbelievably flat feet and asthma don't make the best front-like soldiers.

Dunno, I don't know anything about that kind of stuff. I guess I'd try to put myself in a situation that makes me look as heroic as possible.

So - that'll be the end of you pretty sharpish, then.

svckle at the teat of the government healthcare insurance.

I would be rejected, the Canadian Armed Forces does not allow enlistees with Conditions such as some of the ones i suffer from..

however, if this is a "what if" scenario and they made an exception because WWIII or something broke out, I would probably be given a desk job maintaining the Computer systems at some Military base.. or maybe put into the cyber-warfare division if i was lucky (wow, that would be a fun job).. I just don't have the physical health or Strength to do any super labor intensive work (such as a front-line Soldier), but put me infront of a Computer System or Server room and i can go with the best of em..

I'd welcome it personally. The only reason I havent joined the army yet is because i havent found a cause worth fighting for (all the countries currently fighting each other in the middle east can blow each other up for all I care). So if we were being drafted, then it means there is either another big world war type of war or my country was being attacked. Either way I'd love to join up, I dont see a reason why I'd be a draft dodger unless it was because of some sort of civil war against the government, in which case there would be a whole bunch of variables as to what I would do, depending on the situation.

But yeah, if Canada found ourselves in world war 3 I'll be the first in the line up to join up. Of course, there are different variables as to what my choice would be, but if I felt there was a threat to my existence then yes I would join up in a new york minute and give it 150% effort.

On a side note, knowing my luck I'd probably be one of those guys all excited when we're getting deployed into battle and be all like "all right guys, lets do this!" then run out and get my head blown off in 2 seconds in the front wave, even though I would like to think I would survive longer than that.

Probably end up getting executed for cowardice, or fail basic training.

Well, if I find myself drafted in spite of being a 50 year old heart attack and stroke survivor forced to eat a daily dose of rat poison due to clotting disorders, then it's obviously WW3 and we are losing so badly that everyone is being drafted. There probably isn't a whole lot of choices on the table.

Had I been drafted in my youth, I would have served.

If I was young today and got drafted in today's Orwellian world, I would flee to Canada.

I'd serve as best I could, assuming that they'd take me. Any other way, my family would have nothing to do with me. Mine is the first generation of my family not to have served to begin with. Don't need to add draft dodging to that.

I would do my duty. Nothing more, nothing less. I wouldn't like it, but hard times makes hard people.

Where the heck do you live that they still execute people in the military?

You know - when signing up for WW1 men sounded just as enthused as you. I invite you to read some of the letters of people like Wlfred Owen to find out how quickly that enthusiasm dies - and the person with it.

I don't want to sound too haughty -but there's definitely something in our pshyche that romanticizes violence. I can't really understand the evolutionary purpose, maybe to keep population down, or perhaps it's a by-product of our ability to have hard-held opinions, but when you finally do get into a fight the attraction breaks.

If you were going to fight - make sure it's defensive and it's in defence of something you genuinely feel needs protection - not a fight fueled by patriotism or a sense of duty.

They don't but if it's WW3 there's going to be so many draft dodgers that they will probably have to bring it back.

My dad would be happy, But I wouldn't. I'd serve and do my duty.

You ought to have more faith in the decency of people - and their ability to learn from mistakes.

Besides, with the social media advent, it could be fairly easy to contact people from both sides of the war to enact a large-scale refual to fight, undermining the governments (they can't compel everyone) who are warring and forcing a diplomatic solution to the problem. WWIII scenarios are unlikely to involve oppresive government-reigimes but more likely scraps over resources (such as Russia's refusal to enter Syria, as a Western-Friendly Syria would reduce the Russian oil-monopoly).

As in conscription?

Probably join in the riots against it with everyone else who was drafted.

If I was living in a country where that sort of thing was a genuine possibility, I'd move now, with no desire to live in a place with a government that hasn't learned from two World Wars.

A riot is just as unproductive. A general march of 1000s of conscientious objectors, organized by social media across the warring countries to conscription stations would serve well enough to force the government out of war.

Unfortunately, in the US (a very jingoistic country) this solution is unlikely. Americans are, in general, too habitually patriotic to refuse to fight, and since they're likely to be the largest sabre-rattlers - the fight against a war like this is a fight to make Americans more rational.

Easiest way to avoid being a combatant is to enlist if you've been drafted.

As for the question: If I believed in the war, I would join and fight proudly. If I didn't believe in the war, I would renounce my citizenship and move to Canada.

An ignorant statement, because if you'd done your research you'd know we had many Americans flee up north or go on the lamb to avoid the draft. Care to reevaluate that statement, my living life by stereotypes amigo across the pond?

I'm guessing they'd do an aptitude test or something? If I'm not mistaken there are usually more non-combatants involved in a war, so I'd probably take my chances with not being thrown on the front lines or anything.

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