"Military Service" Semester Essay #2

In other countries, citizens prove their loyalty to their country by serving in the military. Instead of performing this service voluntarily, they are forced to perform at least a year or more of service for the military. I believe that it is wrong to force anyone to perform any military services, even if it is the simplest thing. I believe that forcing a citizen to be apart of the military is wrong. All citizens are not physically enabled to perform any tasks in the military. Most people would be better fit for working in a different career or profession. The only way that a person should be in the military is if they want to and decides to volunteer to do it.

            Forcing a citizen to be active in the military is going against their rights and freedoms of being a human being. If the United States was a country to force people to serve in the military, it wouldn’t be known as the land of the free. It would be somewhat of a dictatorship. A country that has liberties and freedoms don’t have the right to force any of their citizens to do something that they don’t want to do, except pay taxes. Forcing citizens to perform in the military for a year or more makes them feel as though they were a piece of property. It’s making citizens do something they feel is wrong or don’t want to do. Some religions believe that war is the wrong way to solve problems, and forcing them to serve in the military will make them go against their religion and their beliefs.

            All citizens are not physically or mentally equipped to be in the military. Serving in the military will cause many citizens to go into a state of depression. This may cause some to take their own life, even before they are performing any military tasks. Some people are physically weak and are not able to function well while under extreme pressure. Some people have diseases or other illnesses causing them to be very weak at times. That will cause them not to perform to the standards of the military.

            More people would be able to be better off in another career or profession that is going to help the majority of the people who are living in the country. There will be less teachers and doctors. If we don’t have a lot of people like that in our country, it wouldn’t be very good for the people. More children would be illiterate. The size of the classrooms will increase dramatically. The dropout rate would also increase. If you need to go to the doctor you would have to wait longer to see one, due to the availabilities if doctors. The government would probably become corrupt because people wouldn’t know what to do.

            I think that it would be wrong for the United States to force any citizen to serve in the military. They are people, not a piece of property that you can bully around. Everyone is not able to perform in the military due to physical and mental disabilities. This act will cause the United States to become corrupt.