RE: National Service
February 9, 2017 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2017 at 2:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@DBP
Of course the choices available would be limited. We also do aptitude tests for servicemembers and only have so many x-ray tech spots available. I don't think that you could truly exhaust a persons interests with the full spread of shit our government has it's hands in, though. Being subject to a second choice, or even a third choice, isn't exactly being forced to do something you hate (and what is being shuffled into a fry cook position at the mc'ds...anyway, we're all familiar, lol)....and..ofc, if your interests truly were exhausted, and you just hated absolutely everything available...and none of it was worth what it conferred....you could opt out.
National services sure do so bad when we subject them to hyperbolic objections, granted, lol.
@Rhonda
We pay our service members currently, not enough in some cases (too much in others, I'd argue, lol..fucking cooks....) So, yeah. I'm not sure what the business about the pentagon is supposed to be, if you object to military service, you don't have to serve in the military, pick something else. Saying "but the pentagon would make me!" isn't actually an objection to civil service, it's imagining things.
Of course the choices available would be limited. We also do aptitude tests for servicemembers and only have so many x-ray tech spots available. I don't think that you could truly exhaust a persons interests with the full spread of shit our government has it's hands in, though. Being subject to a second choice, or even a third choice, isn't exactly being forced to do something you hate (and what is being shuffled into a fry cook position at the mc'ds...anyway, we're all familiar, lol)....and..ofc, if your interests truly were exhausted, and you just hated absolutely everything available...and none of it was worth what it conferred....you could opt out.
National services sure do so bad when we subject them to hyperbolic objections, granted, lol.
@Rhonda
We pay our service members currently, not enough in some cases (too much in others, I'd argue, lol..fucking cooks....) So, yeah. I'm not sure what the business about the pentagon is supposed to be, if you object to military service, you don't have to serve in the military, pick something else. Saying "but the pentagon would make me!" isn't actually an objection to civil service, it's imagining things.
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