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If you can't convince others to defend your country through rhetoric and compensation, perhaps the country isn't worth defending; your comment implicitly assume
by nickff 11y ago
If you can't convince others to defend your country through rhetoric and compensation, perhaps the country isn't worth defending; your comment implicitly assumes every state is worth sacrificing young lives for.
- mgkimsal 11y ago> your comment implicitly assumes every state is worth sacrificing young lives for. no, it assumes those in control of the state believe it is worth sacrificing young lives for.
- nickff 11y agoApologies if I misread your comment, but I read the following quote to imply that coercion was acceptable once the volunteer army was not enough: >It's fine to have a volunteer force, until we need more. Then force is brought in.
- mgkimsal 11y agoI don't believe it is acceptable, but the people in power probably (often?) do believe that it's acceptable, generally because it's not their own lives at risk.