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I'm not a libertarian but I think they have a point here - conscription is tantamount to slave labor. The fact that it was accepted by societies for hundreds o
by SJC_Hacker 6mo ago
I'm not a libertarian but I think they have a point here - conscription is tantamount to slave labor. The fact that it was accepted by societies for hundreds of years doesn't make it any less so.
- anigbrowl 6mo agoAll work can be compared to slave labor to the extent that you need money to live. Just think of it as practical training for which you also get paid. Personally I think it'd be a massive net benefit for society if every able person had a decent standard of first-aid training and a bunch of other general competencies that gave them useful job and emergency skills which they didn't have to expend a bunch of money to pay for.
- SJC_Hacker 5mo agoConscription is not voluntary. And yes they did put people in jail for refusing the draft