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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by Cthulhu_ on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:16AM (#13775205)
sounds like GoT, take the black or be executed. Still, I think this is a point in favor of conscription - there's a big generation of young adults that don't learn how to adult anymore, basic stuff like laundry, ironing, regular exercise, (self-) discipline, etc.
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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by philh on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:35AM (#13775418)
If young adults are getting by without knowing how to iron, I suggest that says more about ironing than it does about the adults.
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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by literallycancer on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:10PM (#13775841)
Why not have a laundry course then? Why force people who don't need it to waste time there?
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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription by colechristensen on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:35PM (#13777432)
The point isn't that they didn't learn to do laundry. Fixing it by offering a laundry course is just putting black tape over a warning light. They didn't have the environment growing up that made being an upright citizen easy or particularly likely. You can't teach a course about "responsibility" and expect good things.
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