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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Basically, in Starship Troopers, any service could conceivably be used. Juan Rico, the main character, once said that if a deaf, mute, and blind person wanted to become a citizen, they could have him counting hairs on a caterpillar by touch, and it would count.
The thing about requiring military service for citizenship is that you have to give everyone an avenue to military service.
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This idea would be worthy of its own thread. Most of us live in what are loosely, if not accurately, termed "democracies". Should we go down the road the Greeks went, linking full citizenship with some sort of service to the state, or is the currently common Western arrangement the best option? (Most Western nations have given up conscription at this point, I believe.)
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