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Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? by MrVandemar on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:39AM (#46645076)
National Service means largely:

* Giving people guns and teaching them to kill

* Teaching people to blindly follow orders barked at them by an authority figure

* Enormous potential for mental health problems, including bullying, abuse and suicide

* Wasting 4 productive years of someones life

I'm pretty certain national service is a Bad Idea™

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Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? by redhed on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:08AM (#46647973)
Yeah there's countries who have faced actual existential threat (South Korea, Finland, Israel, etc) and national service is still extremely unpopular.
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Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? by digbybk on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:32PM (#46651011)
Maybe it's a bad idea, but it is an idea. "People should get out more" is _not even wrong_
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