In what ways was conscription a controversial issue

The volunteer system was viewed a very unfair and extremely judgemental if they didn’t think you could fight they would not let you.

These were controversial because they needed all the help they could get but rejected some of the help given.

The army’s were using attrition tactics to win the war that’s why a lot of soldiers were being killed at once. Conscription took away people’s choice of freedom and some peoples beliefs because they made all men 18 to 40 unless they had a really good reason for not joining e.g. workers that supplied fuels and things like that or if they had a disability. Other jobs on the home front were taken by women because all the men had to go to war

Secondly conscription is also controversial because of the consequences and opposition it caused, 50 MP’s voted against it. This was controversial because some people who were religious did not agree with killing people and some people just didn’t want anything hanging on their conscience. Others wanted to keep their jobs and didn’t want to go and join the army, but every man who said they would not join the army had to appear before a tribunal which meant if they didn’t think they have a good enough reason for not joining and still decided not to join were either sent to prison or even killed.

This is controversial because some people had beliefs and didn’t want to betray what they didn’t want to betray what they didn’t believe in, they were conscientious objectors

In conclusion not everyone agreed with the war and most people were forced to kill. I would argue that most controversial aspects was the conscientious objectors, I would argue this because people were not allowed their own freedom because the government only cared about winning the war and unless they thought people had a good enough reason not to join the war they were not really given a choice it was either to go to war, to go to prison or to be killed for being a coward.the idea that the government was the forceing men to kill against their consence was the most contriversial part of conscription.