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Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's not an exclusive thing. Most European countries with forced service allow alternate forms of service as well. My coworkers worked with an emergency medical service instead.

    It's really moe like forced community service, but one of the ways you can serve your community is learning to defend it in a time of war.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I am a huge fan of community service but you'd have to be specific about forced or i regard it the same thing.

    I love my real life job but i hate that i need it to earn a wage, because i need a wage to survive and i would deliver better work if i could do it just because it enjoy it (and choose my own workhours)

    I admit i am a bit of an edge case, if i broke the law i would gladly serve a sentence if they can convince me with logical argument that i made the wrong choice and can be improved.

    If they cant convince me of that i means i am punishment while believing my innocence, it would be the most definitive proof of evil an immorality baked into the social contract and fuel me to use the few rights i would still have in jail to radicalize myself further within anti-centralized-state ideology

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