Well the countries that are 100% mandatory are in the minority by a large margin.Umm, no ....
Why would you make such an easily disprovable claim?
Countries with Mandatory Military Service 2025
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No, the weird part is why his military requirement was cut short.
Because they counted his time spent representing the country in FIBA/Olympics as part of his duty
lol.. is that the “official” story?
I think about 1/3 of countries in the world today have mandatory military service (including almost all that are neighbors with Russia, as the map shows). You used words like archaic and embarrassing to describe Finland's situation. Those words simply do not describe the situation properly.
Hey, thanks for your service in keeping conversation (probably artificially) alive. But would you please shut the **** up?
you have over a decade of data that says the answer to your question is going to be a profound No.
Well maybe Finland doesn’t want to be highlighted as a country with a law that restricts human right., ie. the freedom not to train or serve in the military
Stop.
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This is a dumb argument. Plenty of countries are proud of their mandatory requirements to serve. Americans are lucky that we’re big enough, and (relatively) safe enough that we can afford to have a volunteer military. Certainly not every country is so lucky. I think our civilization would be a lot better if everyone had to spend a couple of years serving their country instead of their own personal interests. .
Or serving others/society in some capacity (Peace Corps type stuff). I think not having it in the US has created a major detriment to the fabric of American society by making it pathologically selfish.
I’m sure many are proud to serve, but can you say EVERYONE is happy to serve?
Having it be 100% mandatory means you’re at least forcing some people who don’t want to, to do it.
And forcing it down your throat would make the society better?
What about people who don’t believe in war?
Well you said not having it makes people selfish.. it has nothing to do with being selfing.
Maybe some people just don’t believe in war and violence, how does that make them selfish?
We share over 1000 kms of border with Russia and 5,5M taxpayers aint ever gonna pay enough taxes or provide enough volunteers to protect that.
DO. YOU. KNOW. WHAT. THE. PEACE. CORPS. IS?
I mean, I wouldn't expect it to be mandatory for any industrial military complex country that profits off war, it's more of a civic thing (cleaning up, volunteering, improving infrastructure , learning basic handy skills that a lot of young people don't have) and for smaller countries having a trained population in case of emergency
Well your second sentence was ambiguous.
But everyone here but you knows what we are all talking about ..