I don't understand ANY argument for conscription. Of all the laws on the books that are still "acceptable" in modernity from even the "progressive" crowd, the one that perplexes me the most is conscription.
For me, it's just so simple: If a government needs to force people to fight for the government then the government has no right to exist. A legitimate government should be able to raise a fully volunteer army because all the citizens the government represents wants to fight to defend this government.
Just think about it for a moment. Supposedly some evil enemy is coming to rape your women and kill all the men or enslave everyone by taking their rights away. Everyone should want to defend against that, no? If someone doesn't volunteer to fight against that then clearly they've decided that rape and death is better than... rape and death? Or, perhaps they've decided they can still live without dying for a country and they'd rather this conclusion.
How can anyone justify using force to force something to go to war and die against their will?
I hate the concept of conscription so much I think anyone who suggests it should be hanged, tbh. You want people to fight for you? Offer them an incentive then.
The problem is the conditions in which conscription is triggered.
An existential war with savages who will rape and pillage your lands and children? Conscription is a morally understandable act to force the despicable or foolish into doing their part and increasing the chances the lands are not pillaged. Opting out of that kind of conscription should put you into a lifelong indentured servitude, they sacrificed their lives for your safety, now you must sacrifice from your life for their children's uplift.
A pointless war with a nation that has no means of threatening where you live, at the behest of parasites who will take all the spoils for themselves and have already been insulting and trying to eradicate your family back home for decades? Ain't no shame in dodging that draft, and should be seen as a badge of wisdom.
The latter case ought to call for open insurrection.