One way to hold this word: a list, and a hand writing names onto it. Once your name is on the list, you go — nobody asked you first, and saying no is not a normal option. Every use of conscript keeps that list somewhere in it: the army list the state , the person whose name was written, and the half-joking family version where the person holding the pen is your mother.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives conscript from Latin cōnscrīptus, the participle of cōnscrībō, 'to write together, to enrol'. The list is not a metaphor added later; writing names down together is what the Latin word says.
依 Wiktionary，conscript 來自拉丁文 cōnscrīptus，是 cōnscrībō「一起寫下、登記」的分詞。所以那份名單不是後來才加上的比喻——「把名字寫在一起」本來就是這個字說的事。
Wiktionary, entry 'conscript' (packet etymology_text, etymology_number 1; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:900526477:13731)
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。