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[MADem]

425. Males have to do a longer tour of duty than females do in Israel--and only half of the

population in Israel even ends up serving--there are exemptions up the ying yang.

You're going to have to fight your little slavery battle with someone else. My reasons for rejecting your hare-brained scheme are more immediate than questions of individual liberty and national contribution.

I think conscription is a shitty idea because it horribly expensive, it is stunningly inefficient, it produces resentment absent a national emergency, it cuts into union jobs (which is why you'll NEVER see it here in USA--those guys know how to lobby), it depresses wages, which have not been raised properly to keep pace with inflation and are at least twenty years behind the times as it is, it produces a bureaucracy that dispenses or withholds favors as well as has to administer this behemoth of a proposed system, and it's stupid in the extreme because it interrupts the educations of college - aged students and forces them to labor at activities that they might not want to do FOR NO JUSTIFIABLE PURPOSE--it's forced labor, even if it is compensated. It's these sorts of objections that are causing most European countries to rethink the whole concept.

It's just not a winner anymore, particularly when so many jobs have been automated. We just don't need as much "manpower" to go to war anymore. Drones, robots and automation have changed the face of warfare. We don't need "help" building roads or chopping down trees--there are people who are trained to do this kind of work who are happy to get cracking.

It's just a stinker of a concept.