But the problem is now is the time to hold people to the standards they have created, even if it hurts.

They were never operating with standards to begin with. If you're going to hold them to any principles, you need to hold them to yours.

I'm guessing were just opposite sides of the same coin. You would rather fight them over their double standard, I'd rather let them have it all including reaping what they've sown. Then just rebuilding after the fact. We've fought against the rhetoric for decades.

Probably, understand I'm denying the foundation of their rhetoric entirely. I'm not interested in engaging with rhetoric they don't actually have any principles to support, and the asserted principles they claim are not even ones I accept. That's why I'm standing specifically against equality. Equality is a communist and Leftist argument. My argument is towards freedom, which creates inequality by definition.

Now, for the draft, my only point is that I'm tolerant of the coercion of a draft from an existential threat (which may not even apply for Ukraine, I just don't think it can be dismissed out of hand). If we assert a genuine existential threat, I can see the justification of a society attempting to demand the men of that society fight.

Then again, if a society does have to demand people fight for it, was it worth saving? That's why I'm not going to try and argue with people here who would say, "I won't fight." Fair enough, if you want your society to collapse, I should actually be encouraging you to leave it, not force you to defend it. ... which is why the draft is a stupid plan anyway. General mobilization may not be, but conscription is. I'd rather the government just hand out anti-aircraft weapons to anyone that wants them, rather than try to force people who are fleeing to fight. They make bad soldiers anyway.