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Denmark to conscript women into armed forces for first time (www.aljazeera.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I strongly disagree. This isn't about "depriving people of their freedom" this is about the fact that everyone who lives in a free country, which will support them and give them benefits for life, has a responsibility and a duty to answer when called upon.

Nobody can expect others to defend them if they won't do the same. An integral part of the social contract in countries with conscription is that everyone accepts that duty to answer when called upon, and to defend their countrymen when necessary.

Anyone who doesn't like it is free to start a political movement to abolish it. I have yet to see such a movement in any of the Nordic countries.