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Originally Posted by Webstral
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.)
Webstral
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I have long thought that everyone should have to do some sort of national service. Not necessarily military service; few are cut out for that. But if you set up and same kind of college benefits and suchlike in exchange for being a hospital orderly, teacher in a rural area, doctor in some out-of-the-way place where they're lucky to get a doctor to practice, Meals-on-Wheels, be a 911 operator -- any kind of national service. Yes, there should be conscription of a sort, but it has to suit the person being conscripted, and in my mind, doesn't necessarily mean military service.