>>I'm sorry you had a different, but very important, right taken away from you. It's unfortunate that the draft (which I have never agreed with, and I'm assuming that's what you mean) didn't have the context then that it does now. Namely, that most military authorities oppose it.
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I'm not complaining about having to serve.
I was trying to show that some choices have no appealing outcomes so those "individual rights" you talk about are often really ethical choices between equally unappealing alternatives.

>>Namely, that most military authorities oppose it.

Nixon created the current "volunteer army" so that future presidents wouldn't have to deal with what he and LBJ dealt with when fighting an unpopular war - resistance to the draft.
Watergate aside, Nixon did some good things but the volunteer army was a huge mistake that will be difficult to reverse.
It's pretty safe to say that if Bush had had to institute a draft, he never would have made the colossal blunders he made in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of course military authorities oppose the draft. If we had a draft, most of them wouldn't have jobs and those taxes you like to complain about would be a lot lower.