A country that fights just wars has no need to maintain a list of eligible cannon fodder.

If people truly feel their liberty is at risk, they will volunteer their services in the cause of war.

The selective service system amounts to entrapment, in my view. If the war is unjust, people would rightly want to remain hidden from view. But in this system you must before-the-fact "volunteer" your services without knowing the cause one would be fighting for.

When did we the people decide to implement this system? This matter was decided on by my great-grandfather's generation during a time of war. I don't see why I should be held to their decision.

It would be unnecessary to even contemplate such an affront on individual rights if our nation refrained from wars of aggression and confined itself to wars of defense.

“Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right—the right to life—and establishes the fundamental principle of statism; that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.” Ayn Rand Lexicon pg.127

Wars of a defensive nature have no problem finding volunteers. Volunteers make the most effective soldiers.

I do not see a valid need for this at all. Ditto on LionelHutz's first sentence.

Slavery.