The Bundeswehr is facing a dramatic shortage in personnel. Now Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has rekindled the debate over reintroducing conscription.
I really hope they introduce a year of social service. No matter if military, police or healthcare, everyone should experience what it feels to serve society at least once.
An interesting aspect I didn’t think of so far was recently brought by German news influencer LeFloid: It adds people to the mix of police and military that wouldn’t normally be there. The far-left tend to avoid them, while the far-right embraces them. This creates a dangerous imbalance between left and right views in these structures and opens up room for radicalisation.
Oh yea I can’t wait to be jailed and fined if i don’t want to be forced to serve for free a country that destroy the environment to mine lignite and sell weapons to saudi arabia.
I’m totally against the military part. It’s just elite people deciding on the lives of people that are not in power. And when the time is right, they’ll take away your freedom of choice and mandate you to join a war. My body my rules.
That’s why people join the military voluntarily and get paid for it. My statement was only against forced military service.
Anything mandatory generally is ridiculous and counterproductive. By forcing people to do community service won’t necessarily make them better citizens either. E.g. in South Korea, a lot of people got a trauma from it because (extreme) bullying is very present there. There’s a good documentary about it.
Ukraine shows that in time of war conscription is necessary.
But indeed in peaceful and powerful countries it’s usually requested by conservative for the worst reasons possible, and I think it mostly feeds fascism. Community service is mostly the same. It’s forced labour which is akin to slavery. Conservative like those things because they want to teach obedience and respect, but they are idiots.
Still, conscription is necessary in some conditions, and I wouldn’t oppose it on principle. In France it was stopped because it was expensive and no war was in sight. Time changed and we still have atomic bombs, so in this case I guess it’s quite useless.
But then it asks the question of who the army is defending. With conservative, racists and other fascist friends making most of the police and the army I feel like it’s becoming dangerous. Maybe the army should be more representative of all people. But how can you do it without forcing people? And how do you prevent the army from being a corporation with its own interests and views otherwise?
Cool idea, but in practice the left leaning weren’t serving in the military. They were usually taking the civil service route or trying to avoid both by faking disabilities.
I really hope they introduce a year of social service. No matter if military, police or healthcare, everyone should experience what it feels to serve society at least once.
An interesting aspect I didn’t think of so far was recently brought by German news influencer LeFloid: It adds people to the mix of police and military that wouldn’t normally be there. The far-left tend to avoid them, while the far-right embraces them. This creates a dangerous imbalance between left and right views in these structures and opens up room for radicalisation.
Correct. (Only it goes both ways - the left do get influenced by that mix during their service.)
Oh yea I can’t wait to be jailed and fined if i don’t want to be forced to serve for free a country that destroy the environment to mine lignite and sell weapons to saudi arabia.
I’m totally against the military part. It’s just elite people deciding on the lives of people that are not in power. And when the time is right, they’ll take away your freedom of choice and mandate you to join a war. My body my rules.
You can’t have a country without a military to defend it.
That’s why people join the military voluntarily and get paid for it. My statement was only against forced military service.
Anything mandatory generally is ridiculous and counterproductive. By forcing people to do community service won’t necessarily make them better citizens either. E.g. in South Korea, a lot of people got a trauma from it because (extreme) bullying is very present there. There’s a good documentary about it.
Ukraine shows that in time of war conscription is necessary.
But indeed in peaceful and powerful countries it’s usually requested by conservative for the worst reasons possible, and I think it mostly feeds fascism. Community service is mostly the same. It’s forced labour which is akin to slavery. Conservative like those things because they want to teach obedience and respect, but they are idiots.
Still, conscription is necessary in some conditions, and I wouldn’t oppose it on principle. In France it was stopped because it was expensive and no war was in sight. Time changed and we still have atomic bombs, so in this case I guess it’s quite useless.
But then it asks the question of who the army is defending. With conservative, racists and other fascist friends making most of the police and the army I feel like it’s becoming dangerous. Maybe the army should be more representative of all people. But how can you do it without forcing people? And how do you prevent the army from being a corporation with its own interests and views otherwise?
Cool idea, but in practice the left leaning weren’t serving in the military. They were usually taking the civil service route or trying to avoid both by faking disabilities.
Terrible Idea - in Austria many young men do a 9 month long social service instead of military service and many often get treated like shit.
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