I didn’t say it was cynical or trivial, I said it was morally bankrupt.
It ignores the particular death and damage it inflicts on people who never signed up for such risks, in support of abstract ideals. It deals in ‘principles’, and ignores people.
I’d like to minimize the death and suffering caused worldwide by the US government, too.
But there’s no evidence that a draft will do that, and considerable evidence that it won’t.
