RE: National Service
February 10, 2017 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2017 at 12:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Were talking about a national service, not military conscription. The closest system would be, for example, the system that abaris mentioned earlier in the thread, not a draft.
(besides, we already have one of those, it's called the selective service, lol)
Fun aside, small sample size....but the percentage of respondants to this survey who;ve indicated a willingness or openess to mandatory civil service is already larger...many times over, than the number of people who actually volunteer for -any- type of service. So far, it seems, the notion that atheists are something other than civil minded contributors willing to serve isn't doing so well, on these boards at least.
It would take every active member and then some responding in the negative to even approach the low number of current voluntary servicemembers in the us relative to the GP.
(besides, we already have one of those, it's called the selective service, lol)
Fun aside, small sample size....but the percentage of respondants to this survey who;ve indicated a willingness or openess to mandatory civil service is already larger...many times over, than the number of people who actually volunteer for -any- type of service. So far, it seems, the notion that atheists are something other than civil minded contributors willing to serve isn't doing so well, on these boards at least.
It would take every active member and then some responding in the negative to even approach the low number of current voluntary servicemembers in the us relative to the GP.
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