If you want to bring people together create a program to do such thing. Forcing them into a shooting at people and dropping bombs course is the worst thing you could possibly come up with.

[–] cesium@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're able to refuse active military service and will be put into a civil service position. No one is forced to "shoot at people".

[–] citizen@normalcity.life 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In your mind perhaps, in my country before they abolished military service you would get fined and sent to jail if you refused to go and they would teach everyone at last once how to shot a gun towards targets made to resemble human beings.

[–] cesium@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm talking about Germany as this article is talking about the potential reintroduced of mandatory military service there.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Again, I said it was a good idea, not the be all end all of bringing people together, that is just one benefit of mandatory service.

You guys are really trying to misunderstand me.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm with ya OP.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First world militaries do a hell of a lot more than fight. For example, talking to a young guy at a party last night and the older host. Kid's a Navy SIGINT guy, host is about to retire from commercial sailing. They got to chatting and the kid had been monitoring threats in the area the host's ship had passed through in '21.

After Hurricane Ivan the Florida Guard rolled in and saved our asses. After Katrina my ex-FIL led the Mississippi guard into south MS. They cut houses in half to open the roads.

[–] citizen@normalcity.life 0 points 10 months ago

In japan when a tsunami or earthquake hit the yakuza always help the locals, that does not make them any good.

Firefighters are not teach how to attack countries with biological weapons or psyop