(July 6, 2014 at 10:57 am)Rhythm Wrote: No, it's voluntary. 100% (though some people do end up being coerced - hence "go to war or go to jail" in cadence).
Where I live it's also voluntary. There is an event called the national defense day, all young people after turning 18 years old need to do it, you just go from 9am-4pm to a military base and hear some lectures, learn some basis about the military career, the importance of defense structures, etc, soldiers use that day to incentive all interested to go to the military, a kind of marketing strategy. You can go to jail if you don't show up, but that's it. You can only refuse if you have an objection of conscience.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
