>>>>>Conscription of the entire population is more appropriate to North Korea or Cuba...
>>>>>
>>>>>Or Switzerland, if you're male.
>>>>
>>>>My recommendation was not mandatory conscription in the military. I recommended any public service (peace corps, local community, schools, hospitals, americorps, military, etc) as a way to earn money for college. I feel that is a fair exchange and does not constitute involuntary servitude.
>>>
>>>Cuba uses conscription for non-military labor.
>>>I don't know if they still do it, but they used to have professionals and office people out harvesting sugar cane.
>>>
>>>>>I feel that is a fair exchange and does not constitute involuntary servitude.
>>>If it is service that is not voluntary - that is involuntary servitude.
>>>
>>>As noble as public service sounds, the reality would be bureaucratic servitude.
>>>
>>>Also, it may seem odd, but the only ethical case for mandatory government service is military.
>>>Not because of any high morality - but the very lowest morality - survival.
>>>And our present volunteer system is more ethical yet.
>>>
>>>Why should "public service" include reporting to a government bureaucracy?
>>>Wouldn't people get more out of volunteering for the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, or Church Missions to care for the needy?
>>>
>>>Volunteer organizations get more done with less money, and the money that they spend was not taken by force.
>>>
>>>Bureaucracies exist to perpetuate themselves and to serve politicians - their mission statements are just a pretext for feeding at the public trough - not anything we should empower in any way.
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>>I agree that service to volunteer organizations should count as well. I did not mean to limit the type of service, only that it should benefit the public.
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>I think making it mandatory will be a tough sell in this country.
>
>Am I still twitted? If so I should stop replying to your messages.

Doesn't strike you that service in volunteer organizations could be proposed to be part of mandatory service? Newspeak is not always external and/or remote. People can find it in own souls.