Anonymous
6/12/2025, 5:54:17 PM
No.17758039
>>17758015
The nation and the people are one in the same.
That money is compelled from me and every other citizen. Stolen and used to pay for a service I may or may not have consented to.
If I didn't want to pay for the military, I would be arrested and imprisoned against my will.
The military in a nation like the US can get by on volunteers because its a popular career path that people join out of choice in large enough numbers to make conscription unnecessary most of the time.
If it wasn't, the military would require conscription, as is common in many countries around the world.
You didn't consider any counterfactuals when making that statement. It is merely convenience that makes it so something like the US Army is a volunteer force and if it couldn't get those volunteers, it would conscript en masse to fill its roles. As drafts have done historically.
There's no reason at all to think that government provided healthcare wouldn't be similar to government provided defense against foreign invasion as a popular and lucrative career path that people would join voluntarily in large numbers.
You're at the same time whitewashing and fearmongering at the same time.
The nation and the people are one in the same.
That money is compelled from me and every other citizen. Stolen and used to pay for a service I may or may not have consented to.
If I didn't want to pay for the military, I would be arrested and imprisoned against my will.
The military in a nation like the US can get by on volunteers because its a popular career path that people join out of choice in large enough numbers to make conscription unnecessary most of the time.
If it wasn't, the military would require conscription, as is common in many countries around the world.
You didn't consider any counterfactuals when making that statement. It is merely convenience that makes it so something like the US Army is a volunteer force and if it couldn't get those volunteers, it would conscript en masse to fill its roles. As drafts have done historically.
There's no reason at all to think that government provided healthcare wouldn't be similar to government provided defense against foreign invasion as a popular and lucrative career path that people would join voluntarily in large numbers.
You're at the same time whitewashing and fearmongering at the same time.