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The article and the book relate in the idea of being against the way the government works. In the book, the main character, Joe, spends a large section of the book thinking about how the draft is messed up. He thinks that people should not be forced to fight for something that they don't believe in. The draft is a violation of his rights as an American citizen, because it takes away the individuals freedom. Makes them drop everything and fight for, what Joe says, is just a word. Like, 'Freedom.' He argues that nobody actually knows what 'freedom' is, like freedom of what, for whom, and how much? How can a person be convinced to truly fight for just a word? Joe thinks that anyone who would even choose to fight for it would be a moron, but that would be their choice. To be forced by the government, a body that is so separate from the general population, to give up so much of your life and face death, is completely unfair. This idea ties into the article because the article is saying that people feel too distanced from the government to be able to really accept the tasks being forced upon them. Joe feels that the war is not his problem, not his war. Its the governments war, and he shouldn't have been stuck fighting it.