[danaris]

Um...what?

Desertion has, historically, been a capital crime. Trying to paint conscription as not being a kind of captivity because "you're not legally obligated to stay in your country" is at best wildly disingenuous, and at worst just flat-out wrong.

I think you might need to take quite a bit more time to consider this issue, lest you prove your username much truer than you probably want.

[pfdietz]

> Desertion has, historically, been a capital crime.

And it remained so for the US in WW2, although the sentence was carried out just once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Slovik

Major General Norman "Dutch" Cota, who was at the execution, called it "the toughest 15 minutes of his life". For context, Cota was also present at the bloodbath on Omaha Beach, where he famously rallied troops.

[dmbrThnYou]

You can absolutely emigrate prior to the conscription coming to fruition. It has to be permanent, or it's draft evasion, but it is perfectly legal.

Sorry for the edits confusing things. I can see earlier how you thought I meant desertion as opposed to emigration.