People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard

Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by wizzairflyer on Friday July 13, 2018 @03:26AM (#17521102)

>a legal challenge on the grounds that a certain religious minority is exempted from such service, the claim being that this constitutes inequal treatment.

Kind of amazing that this is ground for a legal challenge but the fact that female aren't drafted isn't. That's one of the part of Western societies around which I can't wrap my mind.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by varjag on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:48AM (#17521644)

There's increasing pressure to fix that too. Norway has introduced gender neutral draft two years ago.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by wizzairflyer on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:12AM (#17522619)

I hope this get fixed eventually, either by extending it to both genders or removing it completely.

In Switzerland we had a small reform of our army and copying the Norwegians was considered for a while, but they ended up dropping the idea for just doing small changes. Quite disappointing.

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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by opo on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:36PM (#17525546)

>...I hope this get fixed eventually, either by extending it to both genders or removing it completely.

Every country has abolished private slavery. I'd like to imagine a world where each individual state also relinquished its claim to enslave people.

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