That's some hippidippy talk. The country needs their service, and kids need to understand what it means to contribute to society. Even if they never do anything civic again, they will have done a great service - whether in military, conservation corps, etc. I actually think it's a good thing... with one caveat: they should not be sending their young to any 'meat grinder' and the front line of any possible war scenario would be the enlisted men first and foremost as the trained professional soldiers - the youth would be used for support operations and other useful training or manual labor tasks.
For me it has always been the difference between freedom and being "compelled" by the state. Once you are compelled to serve, you do as you are told or end up in the brig. trained professional or youth. They all go to the meat grinder when the state forces them into it.
Compulsory military service is violation of human rights, yet another point proving how tyrannical Europe actually is.
The EU needs to be abolished.
That's some hippidippy talk. The country needs their service, and kids need to understand what it means to contribute to society. Even if they never do anything civic again, they will have done a great service - whether in military, conservation corps, etc. I actually think it's a good thing... with one caveat: they should not be sending their young to any 'meat grinder' and the front line of any possible war scenario would be the enlisted men first and foremost as the trained professional soldiers - the youth would be used for support operations and other useful training or manual labor tasks.
For me it has always been the difference between freedom and being "compelled" by the state. Once you are compelled to serve, you do as you are told or end up in the brig. trained professional or youth. They all go to the meat grinder when the state forces them into it.