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You are just lifting the political premise of Heinlien's Starship Troopers. I am not sure that this would make a society less likely to go to war, because the s
by moocowduckquack 13y ago
You are just lifting the political premise of Heinlien's Starship Troopers. I am not sure that this would make a society less likely to go to war, because the society itself will become more obsessed with the military and is more likely to look for things that look great in military terms, like conquests.
- philwelch 13y agoLots of real world countries have or had national service requirements. Hopefully it would make war less likely because it would more equally distribute the human costs of war. You wouldn't have these chickenhawks who never served themselves.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoHopefully it would make war less likely because it would more equally distribute the human costs of war. It could also make war more likely by increasing the warrior mentality. People in warrior societies don't seem to go to war less, historically.