I didn't say anything about the nature of the draft nor its morality, I was merely addressing the comparative utility of draftees vis-a-vis hippies. From a military perspective in particular.
From a moral perspective, of course, hippies are more utile than draftees - they oppose wars.
That presupposes all wars are immoral, which is not the case.
A hippy protesting a just or necessary war would be the immoral one.
Plus, I was speaking of practical utility, not moral utility.
Observe my hypothesis:
1. Not all wars are immoral. Some wars however are.
2. Anybody touting a war will necessarily claim his favorite war is over.
3. As such, in a healthy society, you must have people who will oppose wars, otherwise the society will just rush headlong into conflict after conflict - q.v. the last two decades of the Soviet Union, wherein that country deployed its troops in 60 [!] local conflagrations in various African and Latin American crapholes, then bankrupted itself in meaningless war in Afghanistan.
