Comments on: Anti Conscriptionism http://www.dushkin.org/2006/09/03/anti-conscriptionism/ Citizen of the Internet Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:58:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: meltingwax http://www.dushkin.org/2006/09/03/anti-conscriptionism/#comment-92 meltingwax Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:23:03 +0000 http://www.dushkin.org/?p=107#comment-92 I agree that Israel's policy of forced military-servitude is not very ethically correct, but it is some what nessesary for Israel's survival. Israel is a small country, and a voluntary army would probably not have kept it from being conquered by the surrounding Palestinian countries. I cannot completley verify this, but I heard it is occasionally possible to exchange a fighting job for a longer-serving non-fighting job. I only read a post by someone on the internet, who said he had exchanged a combat-job for a army-programmer job that was two years longer. Again, since it was on the internet I can't completley garuntee its validity. Also I think we might have varying definitions of democracy. I was always under the impression that democracy was defined as a type of government where the people vote for elected officials who then vote on the decisions that direct the country. The definitions of democracy from several dictionaries (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=democracy&x=0&y=0) agree with me. I do not know the inner-working of the Israeli government, but I think it would be possible for them to change that policy if there was mass disapproval. I agree that Israel’s policy of forced military-servitude is not very ethically correct, but it is some what nessesary for Israel’s survival. Israel is a small country, and a voluntary army would probably not have kept it from being conquered by the surrounding Palestinian countries.

I cannot completley verify this, but I heard it is occasionally possible to exchange a fighting job for a longer-serving non-fighting job. I only read a post by someone on the internet, who said he had exchanged a combat-job for a army-programmer job that was two years longer. Again, since it was on the internet I can’t completley garuntee its validity.

Also I think we might have varying definitions of democracy. I was always under the impression that democracy was defined as a type of government where the people vote for elected officials who then vote on the decisions that direct the country. The definitions of democracy from several dictionaries (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=democracy&x=0&y=0) agree with me.

I do not know the inner-working of the Israeli government, but I think it would be possible for them to change that policy if there was mass disapproval.

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