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sapphi_snake said:

HappySqurriel said:

It sounds to me like you have an irrational dislike of the military based on uninformed opinions from biased sources ...

What I'm talking about isn't significantly different from how the Canadian Reserves operate (providing vocational training and funding for college); and (having known dozens of reservists in University) I have only ever heard overwhelmingly positive things said about military training.

The only legitimate, informed, argument against manditory military training is the poin of why it is the responsiblity of the military to train citizens; and this is the primary reason I'm (personally) agaisnt it. But this completely unsupported belief that people are somehow worse off from military training is bullshit.

I don't want to be forced to undergo any military training, and I don't think that anyone should be forced to undergo such training. You're right about it not being the military's role to train people, this is another reason why I disagree with mandatory military service.

And you probably don't know the nature of mlitary service in Romania, but no education was offered to the people drafted, just combat training. I also find the nature of such training, which includes forced physical exercises, forced labour, humiliation, hazing (it happens quite often in the military) to be degrading and dehumanising (not to mention the desensitization to things like physical and psychological violence and murder).

Ultimately I'm against the military as an institution, and no one can force me to be associated with it (if the conscription hadn't been eliminated over here I would've probably either emigrated or gone to jail).

Againt the military as an instiution?  Seriously?  How do you plan to... not be invaded without a military?