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Many (liberal) countries still hold mandatory military services. I think there was much more resistance to the general consensus around 9/11 and other "man made

• mindslight 6y ago
  You say '"science"', I say reality. There isn't much room for creativity, because nobody wants elective exposure when the spread is still fundamentally unmanaged and growing. There is no middleground of prudently half-exposing yourself. Rather you go out only when you have to and mitigate that exposure as much as possible. The political debate is basically driven by people wanting others to ignore the problem, so that they themselves will be less disrupted. For military service, specifically the US has moved away from the draft though. It's much less authoritarian to effortlessly cheerlead for sending employees off to die, versus being so whipped up that the majority of the population is willing to go themselves. Mandatory military service only works when people trust the government. If USG attempted to institute a draft for its next nation building exercise, it would find out how little support its wars actually have.