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  • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    5 hours ago

    Both are effectively the same thing, a citizen pressed into service, against their will.

    So “you cannot leave the country and will be kidnapped and forced to die a horrible death on the front lines” is the same as “you can freely leave the country but if you don’t you will have to do forced labour in military uniform for a year”.

    Got it.

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      4 hours ago

      Now you’re just being deliberately obtuse. That’s not what the word “conscription” means, and I’m pretty sure you know that.

      You’re just being an ass because a year of mandatory service is what the law uses conscription for in Finland, DURING PEACETIME.

      In wartime, being unable to leave the country, forced to fight on the front lines, is also conscription.

      Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law.

      “you cannot leave the country and will be kidnapped and forced to die a horrible death on the front lines”

      When done by a state, that is literally still within the definition.