• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    why can’t I decide what’s best for me? ages 18-21 I worked for my local city in projects designed to get local young people at risk of offending into projects like (legal) graffiti, music, arts, sports and volunteering.

    Surely that was a better benefit to society than learning how to walk in the same rhythm as a group of other people?

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      6 months ago

      Same reason we don’t let kids decide if they want to go to school or not. Not everyone is going to make the right choice. People do things for their and societies good. You really don’t think most people are currently doing that can you?

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        6 months ago

        but we let these “kids” choose their degrees, or jobs and - indeed potentially train them for the military - at that age.

        And who is to say the military is the right choice? If someone yells at me to do push ups in the mud - in any other context I am well within my rights to tell them to fuck off. Which is entirely normal behavior.

        In general, yes, the majority of people are doing some kind of good for themselves, families and communities. People volunteer, raise kids, donate to charity, recycle, care for sick relatives, help their neighbors and friends…

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          6 months ago

          I think your right.

          As much as the fat kids and the kids that have no will power and blame their lack of drive on others could benefit from structure, teamwork and exercise.

          You’re right, ultimately it is too late and it just trying to fixing a failing of the state. We need to give these people more attention in school and turn them into better people than what we turn out of schools currently.

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            6 months ago

            it’s interesting to me that you see childhood obesity as “an absence of military training” and not such things as

            • lack of support for health education in schools
            • lack of health meal choices for school cafeterias
            • lack of free support materials for parents
            • subsidies and support for low income families to get access to fresh and healthy foods
            • tariffs on high fat and high sugar foods
            • regulation on grocery store prices
            • more free activities for young people
            • subsidized sports programs and facilities
            • etc etc

            “oh that’s expensive”

            the us military spends $64,000 per second every second.

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              6 months ago

              I didn’t say that. I say conscription would help these overweight people and it would help in other ways.

              Then I also said that getting to that point is a failing of the state.

              You don’t know where I stand on any of those points because we weren’t talking about it.

              I don’t really care what the US military spends per second.