you may call mandatory military service slave labor but I call it a great first experience with guns.
>tfw too autistic for national service
>>64706807I thought I was gonna get assraped but all that happened was I learned to garden and got a girlfriend.
>>64706937post gf then
>>64706912I went to intti as an autist and it helped me a lot with social situations.
>>64706807All societies depend on 'slave labor' and always will. A 50% tax burden is close to the same as everyone working half their life without tax and spending half their time directly conscripted into mandated jobs without pay.I think a few years of slave labor that applies to everyone rich or poor and is in the cause of defending the country is pretty based.That said it would also be pretty based to make everyone rich or poor pick up trash or work a customer service job for 1 year, if there was no pressing need to defend the country.Most countries doing mandatory conscription have a bordering geopolitical threat that makes the military angle necessary.Except for the the Swiss, who are surrounded by the world's most peaceful countries and still larp conscription and pretend to fight dragons or something. But still the Swiss don't get rid of it, so even the side benefits of military conscription must be doing something wonderful for them.
>>64707024desu I don't think it'd be a bad thing to have a "learn your fucking place, trash" mandatory community/national service that everyone has to do. I often find myself wondering how much better the world would be if the people with the power and wealth knew what it was like to lack those specific qualities for a year or two. Kinda like the same way that someone who's worked a shitty retail job won't be as much of a fuckass to employees as someone who hasn't.
>>64706937Sounds like you got a good experience from the gig
>>64706807>great first experience with gunsMy first experience with a gun was shooting a nylon 66 with my grandpa. That's a much better experience if you ask me, slave.
>>64706807I call it cattle being sent to the slaughter
>>64706807>first experience with guns>mandatory military serviceDoomed country.
>>64706807most conscription countries dont let you own a gun or very heavily limit it
>>64706807>was expecting a lot of landscaping, digging, cleaning duty and other boring stuff>ended up becoming the base IT guy (it was a small unit meant only for conscripts) bc they found out I had a Technical Course in IT>for a year my routine consisted of grabbing a cup of coffee, hanging out with the kitchen guys for a bit, then heading out to my CO's office where I'd stay there all day doing paperwork, guard duty schedules and fixing computers/printersIt was alright I guess, I learned some pretty cool /k/ stuff from army manuals, got to handle a local mauser 98 variant and shot a Paratrooper FAL during training. If you use glasses like me (astigmatism + myopia) using ironsights sucks the first time you try, takes a while to get used to it.I think the most intense thing we did outside of training was disaster relief during a massive flood our region had, we were sent out to help get folks out of their homes, then later to distribute food/aid. I'm not gonna lie, I saw some fucked up stuff those weeks, like floating bodies (mostly animals + the occasional human) and people losing pretty much all of their belongings. What destroyed me during this time was when a brother and sister came to me (they weren't even 10 yrs old probably) and begged for food and shelter bc their parents were missing and they had no one else to stay with them, they were so dirty and starving and that broke me in that moment bc I knew their parents were most likely dead at this point.
Military service exists to give structure to the lives of those in the lower echelons.
>>64707549Not necessarily. Trying to teach marksmanship in the US army we had these retards who were so confident because they'd been shooting since they were kids but learned it wrong so it was honestly easier to train people that never held a gun before because they didn't have bad habits. Same with drivers training. "Yeah bro, I've been mudding with my jeep so driving an uparmored LMTV is a piece of cake" and run off the road.
>>64706807>I might be a vassal of the states will on threat of imprisonment but at least they let me handle a weapon a couple times in training and then lug it around unloaded on a 20k marchfuck conscription, if the people choose not to defend it then it deserves to fall
