• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I’m not sure what other sensible alternative there is for Finland than conscription. You can’t get around the geographical issues so you have to have some sort of sensible and credible defence. That’s why it has a very wide approval, even when the moral issues of it are recognized. NATO seemed promising as a guarantor of safety, until it lost that credibility (and Finland got in a bit unwillingly, after some recent events). Voluntary military was what Sweden did and it didn’t work well for them.

    Actually funnily enough people are surprisingly supportive of expanding the conscription to include women. And that’s on equality grounds, which to many who abhor the idea of forced conscription must seem pretty wild.

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      1 month ago

      I’m not sure what other sensible alternative there is for Finland than conscription.

      What’s the alternative to slavery? How do we get our food without a slave forced to farm 14h a day?

      Actually funnily enough people are surprisingly supportive of expanding the conscription

      So supportive that if they refuse to go they go to jail.