@raphjd said in ACLU does something right, for once:
I thought you said you were a conservative-libertarian.
IF we went with national service, I do agree that no one gets an out for any reason, except for extreme mental/physical disability.
Mandatory public service is considered a conservative idea in many other countries... but it most certainly does not jive with pure libertarian idealism!
Still, 27 countries have mandatory MILITARY service: here
But I am not a slave to any political ideology: Social Security and Medicare are socialist programs - but I'm not fighting to abolish them! In other words, Conservative Libertarian describes my beliefs, but it does not define them!
In the GENERAL CASE, I think the Government should be small and keep out of people's personal lives... But, in practice, there must be exceptions: we need laws against fraud, for example...