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I think I'm the only one with a service record from the sound of things.

There will never be another draft, barring the instance in which there is a mass invasion on U.S. soil. So you're looking at astronomical odds in favor of that happening; nothing anyone who isn't afraid of their own shadow should be worried or stressing about.

As for deliberately refusing to register with the selective service; life's full of choices. But good luck securing any type of federal loans, student loans, mortgages, federal aid, social security, federal employment, etc. You're literally making your life more difficult over nothing more than a precautionary system that was implemented when the "Red Scare" was in full effect generations ago.

Frankly, anyone who wants to make the selective service a symbolic "moral stand" by refusing to register is free to leave the country.