• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s not good enough to simply say you’re a conscientious objector, otherwise everyone and their brother would do it and conscription as a concept would fail.

    So, if you are one, you gotta fucking prove that shit somehow. Words aren’t good enough. Go protest, join an org, donate to charities, whatever. Need some evidence though.

    It’s not complicated to understand.

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        9 months ago

        Agreed, it is not. I think that is more the misleading, clickbaity headline than the argument the courts made though, which is in the article itself.

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        9 months ago

        Usually I’d agree with you, but S Korea is in an unusual situation where they would actually get overrun without their army. They’re still technically at war, and N Korea does plenty of sabre rattling.

        That’s not a place like the US, where the military is mainly used for overseas adventures, they face real, external threats.

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        9 months ago

        Exactly. Where a sov cit thinks they can just say things and make them true, the actual law is a lot more complicated than that. It’s the polar opposite.

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      9 months ago

      There are better ways to get soldiers than forced conscription.

      Like in Pakistan, they run 24/7 nationalist propaganda about how amazing the military is and how brave men have sacrificed their lives for General Bajwa’s 300 papa john’s locations the freedom of the nation.

      Or in the USA, they run a 24/7 marketing campaign advertising minimmum wages and education in exchange for “chilling” 6 years in the infantry with no post service trauma or health issues whatsoever.

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      9 months ago

      Saying it is good enough. It’s not unreasonable to think a regular person might be against human rights abuses. You can’t demand that citizens go support your imperialist regime just because they only indirectly show support for human life.