But how do you know you are not a better soldier? Assuming you are in the USA, there is no mandatory military service. Who is to say you are not great one, but you just don't know?
On another angle, the point is not about being a soldier specifically. How about doing intelligence, or translation, or manufacturing, or X, or Y, or Z for the purpose of fulfilling whatever mission the President has decided is important?
The point that you are "told" by the government is a weak one. In the US at least, you elect representatives to make the right decisions for you.
I have been to Israel where I saw armed young people welcoming me to the airport and doing their job for their country. Everybody has to do that job for some time. Everybody needs to sacrifice that time during which you cannot "go to the mall."
Maybe if that was the case, there would be less wars as people would think twice about it, as it used to happen in the past in the US.
My point was that we do build up this "social class" called the "military" when most would not ever consider joining. And that is what is hypocritical.
By the way, here in the USA when I was 18 there was a mandatory draft that sent some people to fight in Vietnam while others, like myself were lucky enough to get high numbers in a national lottery (that only men were subjected to) so I was not forced to go fight.
On another angle, the point is not about being a soldier specifically. How about doing intelligence, or translation, or manufacturing, or X, or Y, or Z for the purpose of fulfilling whatever mission the President has decided is important?
The point that you are "told" by the government is a weak one. In the US at least, you elect representatives to make the right decisions for you.
I have been to Israel where I saw armed young people welcoming me to the airport and doing their job for their country. Everybody has to do that job for some time. Everybody needs to sacrifice that time during which you cannot "go to the mall."
Maybe if that was the case, there would be less wars as people would think twice about it, as it used to happen in the past in the US.
My point was that we do build up this "social class" called the "military" when most would not ever consider joining. And that is what is hypocritical.