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> The law provides for two categories of service — military service and alternative (civil) service — prescribing the rules and procedures for performing these
by fullspectrumdev 3y ago
> The law provides for two categories of service — military service and alternative (civil) service — prescribing the rules and procedures for performing these obligations.
The alternate civil service route is understated and extremely useful, I think.
It’s not reasonably possible to draft and train all men who turn 18, so you make a bunch of exceptions and then an alternate route doing stuff like acting as ambulance drivers, firemen, reserve police (think: PCSO/Specials in the UK), even just fucking wrangling paperwork or whatever.
It’s not a bad system, as these things go.
- acadapter 3y agoIt's still a penalty based on what half of the population you were randomly born into. Male lifespan is on average shorter, and this burden is yet another thing on the minus side.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoThat doesn’t bother me, as a man.
- where-group-by 3y agoWill you be affected though? You're probably old enough to avoid it anyway.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoMy country doesn’t (and never has had) conscription, so it’s largely academic for me. I’m also too old. It does seem like a years service isn’t the worst burden though, especially in peacetime, with an option to do civil service as an alternative to military service.