Re:Sweden brings back military conscription
by tyingq on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:18AM
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In the US military, peer pressure was the traditional motivator when the draft was being used. Your peers are aware they have to pick up the slack if you're not pulling your weight. Typically, all the leaders needed to do was to point this out.
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Re:Sweden brings back military conscription
by jampekka on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:38PM
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At least in the Finnish conscript military this is the primary method. And not only do the peers have to pick up the slack, there are collective punishments, which have the designed tendency to turn the peers against the "unmotivated" people. Although this has its limits, as most people are very unmotivated, mostly because the whole service is dehumanizing and boring shit.