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If national service is so good, everyone should do it
- fortran77 7y agoI come from a country where almost everyone serves in the Army for 3 years, between high school and college. People are much more mature when they enter college, and young people are much more capable than they are here in Silicon Valley.
- howard941 7y agos/company/country surrounded by enemies/ ? The strawman article of course makes it a stupid, anti-youth, anti-people idea. France won't do this, for sure it's not going to happen in the US or the UK even if one voluntary aspect (serve a few years and leave with your education debt paid in full) has merit. The "greatest generation" prepared a real Dagwood of a shit sandwich for the generations that followed. Thank you for saving us from alien fascists. Please finish the job and take the domestic fascists with you when you leave.
- fortran77 7y agoI'm not sure I get your last point. National service program or not, I think the Nation would be better off if after high school, everyone worked for a couple of years. It doesn't have to be a Government service program -- it could be for a private company mopping floors, cleaning windows, washing dishes, serving customers. Then go to college. We'd get much more mature people in college with a better perspective and more open minds.
- bifrost 7y agoWe had the draft for a while.