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Beyond moral grounds, Rand provided several practical reasons for abolishing the draft:

She argued that without the draft, governments could not easily embark on "senseless ventures" like the Vietnam War, as they would struggle to find volunteers for wars lacking clear self-defense purposes. ayn rand

Rand’s ideas influenced the eventual abolition of the U.S. draft in 1973. Beyond moral grounds

Rand's opposition was rooted in her philosophy of , which holds that an individual’s life belongs to them, not the state. not the state.