• FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
    2 years

    I don’t agree with conscription.

    Your country shouldn’t be able to force you to kill people, and if the US ever tried to make me, I’d flee too. War only really serves the interests of the rich anyway.

    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
      2 years

      So they should have just let Hitler murder his way across Europe and then continue his way into the rest of the world?

        • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
          2 years

          I don’t think volunteer armies would have stopped Hitler, or many other conquering forces. Mutual defense is a critical part of society.

          • CCL@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
            2 years

            possibly, depends on my life situation at the time in your hypotehical creation. If I was an 18 year old with no family to care for, probably, but at my current state as a the soul bread winner of a family of six, no.

    • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2 years

      What if you were conscripted into the medical corps? Or if you were military veterinary staff?

      Not all military personnel serve on the front line.

      • FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
        2 years

        In my opinion, that’s also unacceptable. You’re still facilitating the deaths of innocents and aiding the war machine.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      2 years

      It sucks. Still doesn’t make it the less shitty option, though.