"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is to bear arms for your country” (-General George S. Patton Jr). Here, within our borders, we are the fortunate ones, we have been blessed to have so many brave men and women who have volunteered in the greatest military in the world. world and have put their lives on the line for something they believe is a moral obligation, think of some other countries, which have conscription laws (the practice of ordering people by law to serve in the armed forces). , and if you are male and over 18 you have already signed the piece of paper stating that in time of war if our great nation reinstates the draft then there is a great chance you will serve on the front lines next Great War This brings me to my first topic on this page, is it ethical to have a draft? My second topic I will discuss will be whether it is morally acceptable to "dodge the draft." What I mean by the second argument is whether you have a right; which morally allows you not to go and fight in war. For the first part of this article you will need some information about how the draft has worked throughout our history (as Americans) and how it has been socially perceived by the citizens of this great nation. We have had military conscription in peacetime for more than fifty years. “President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 which created the country's first peacetime draft and formally established the Selective Service system” (about.com). We have been very fortunate that the military draft has only been used twice now, the first time for W... middle of paper... military conscription in the name of freedom is an illegitimate criminal organization. A government willing to enslave people to protect your freedom cannot be trusted. A government that forces people to fight for its own goals, its own protection, and its own benefits has created a morally perverse situation in which there is no free society left to defend” (Boldin). Another thing we need to pay attention to is the absence of an overflow of troops; “Unpopular wars are very difficult to fight. The possibility of resorting to conscription actually encourages politicians to wage even more wars; The huge resources are a temptation that is difficult for lovers of war to resist. When the draft was finally weakened, in the 1970s, for example, the Vietnam War ended” (Boldin). What is morality? The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that morality is/are beliefs about what is right behavior and what is wrong behavior