Military Conscription Debate
Discussions focus on mandatory military service, conscription policies in countries like Israel and others, contrasting them with volunteer armies, and debating their merits, effectiveness, and public acceptance.
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Probably to do with mandatory military service. Not an issue for a non-citizen.
The author appears to be from a country where military service is compulsory.
It's OK. They have mandatory military service, so he wouldn't have a choice on the matter anyway.
Many countries still have military conscription, so sometimes enlisted soldiers do not really have a choice: you are either drafted with national pride, or drafted feeling moral guilt, or jailed for dodging and then maybe still drafted afterwards into a penal batallion. Or you break and bend the law.
In USA - currently yes. In many countries there is still unvoluntary army draft."Some idea" of potential consequences - yeah, you can get killed. If I was sure that I could get killed for morally valid reasons (like defending my homeland, your moral validity may differ) and not to defend oil execs exploiting poorer coutries, I would have less objections. I'm rather convinced that we will have some big war soon and I'll try to help defend my country first with my skills and
Wait, their military was involuntary previously? Everyone currently serving didn’t choose to do this?
Don't forget that Israel has conscription, requiring 2 or 3 years of military service for all Israelis over 18. Given Israel's somewhat unique security situation this policy is likely more of an asset than a waste, but it's not obvious that it could be successfully generalized to larger or more diverse countries, where the benefits to the state might conflict more sharply with individual freedoms.
Military service is mandatory in some countries.
The military will be there no matter what. The US spends $700/bn a year on it. This is a question of who takes part in it. A lot of modern countries have mandatory service,look at it this way,you pay mandatory tax which is a result of your labor in order to support government. This is a tax except you pay directly by labor.
You mean 20% of conscripts choose to opt out because they don’t want to spend a year of their life in the military? :)