• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The best argument for conscription is that, like politics or the police, the psychology predisposed to choosing it is not necessarily the most beneficial to be involved with it.

    If you could choose to serve only in natural disaster relief, humanitarian, or aid operations it would make it significantly less conflicting.

    Ultimately the requirement to be involved with, and potentially murder, in anti-democratic or anti-humanitarian operations, and acts of aggression, that could have been decided entirely by self-serving corporate or political interests makes conscription a dealbreaker.

    • Womble@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      As someone said above:

      Draft soldiers of Germany are not allowed to operate outside of our own borders and are used to fill the gaps that stem from professional soldiers working abroad. The Bundeswehr and especially the draftees can only be used for peacekeeping, humanitarian aid and defense.

      Which seems fairly reasonable to me

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      6 months ago

      Starship troopers style. Interesting.

      Also with conscripts they don’t normally see fighting they are just normally ready. They tend to just be trained reserves.