Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter

• unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m of the opinion that when a democracy forces you into the military there will be no democracy left to defend

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, depends.

    Note that US military history picks me from trusting them in this fashion, but if mandatory military service were: -severely limited term -purely domestic (prepare for defense from active attacks, relief, and rescue) -not used in any vaguely law enforcement capacity.

    Then I could see that as possibly reasonable.

    Of course I’d be skeptical that a nation would display that sort of restraint, but just saying I could imagine a hypothetical that included that

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    • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Australia we had conscription in WW2 where the Citizen Military Force could only operate in Australia… but they changed it to include PNG so I guess your skepticism is justified. Then for Vietnam and Korea (why were we involved???) we had conscription for overseas.

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    • Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you just described most military services actually

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Voluntarily discipline style camps sure.

  Mandatory would backfires on me. I am happy to help but to command my body around requires my consent and respect for my pacifist boundaries.

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• Carlo@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the US would be a lot better off with a mandatory period of service. Not exclusively military, but an option between that and some kind of civil service. I think it would do a lot to bring the country together.

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  • NAM@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Compulsory customer service for a couple years might make retail customers less miserable to deal with overall.

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have not served but I did feel that mandatory civil service (outside of the military) that included getting you trained in a 4 year degree would do a lot of good.

    I haven’t really thought about that in a while though, to see how that would backfire.

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  • Kakaofruchttafel@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Go fuck yourself, civil service is socialism. Communist scum.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Funny, because the generation who last went to war to fight communism was drafted into it.

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    • Kakaofruchttafel@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shit, I forgot the /s

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• TheControlled@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, the US doesn’t. It just drone strikes them. Picking a fight presumes it’s a fair fight.

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