• GoogleyWoog@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Yeah I’ve always thought mandatory reserve training seemed like a good idea. Give everyone some basic life skills, team building, athleticism, and show them how shitty war would be to encourage peace.

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      4 months ago

      You get none of those things from mandatory enlistment. What you do get is military pigs abusing their power and a bunch of young people being used as slaves until their time is over.

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      4 months ago

      If you really want to accomplish this you can achieve it with civilian work corps and the like. You don’t need to make it a military only process, claiming it would would show just why making it a military only process is actually problematic.