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Mandatory military service is slavery. Do not give up your freedom, do not serve corrupted governments and politician. Fight for justice not against it.
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Thatβs not uncommon in countries with universal military service. Israel does this, and I think Finland and Singapore might as well. Swedenβs limited conscription (itβs a lottery, and you get to decline, though unless you have a strongly held conviction to do so, itβs a breach of jantelagen to do so) is also unisex, IIRC, which I suspect is more what the Danish model will look like than the IDF.
A (de facto) lottery was what made Germany suspend conscription because only pulling in a fraction of each cohort was considered a breach of equality.
Finland
Norway, not Finland. Women have a duty to serve but so few are called up that it's kind of voluntary in practice.
At least in Finland you can voluntarily join the army as a woman, but the military service is only mandatory for men, so it's not equal.
What is jangelan?
It's the typical phrasing of social pressures to not stand out in Scandinavia, drawing from a book where the author phrases the "rules" somewhat as a legal code. Tall poppy syndrome is an overlapping idea that might be more familiar to English speakers.
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This is a great step forward for equality
What a step, everyone should be a slave with no discrimination of sex
Slave to the state
The best way to become a slave to a state is not to have a good defense. Just ask any neighbor af Russia.
Brainless serving in an army is not defense. People can defend themself better when they are free not when they are forced to obey corrupted rulers orders.
Real equality is the state demanding you get in that fucking trench
I'm not sure if Denmark is one of those but for some states there's unfortunately little choice. Not like we in Finland want to be next to Russia. But only men having to serve is an obvious equality issue.
Iβm not sure if Denmark is one of those but for some states thereβs unfortunately little choice.
There's plenty of choice that doesn't involve giving up your rights and become a slave to an authoritarian government. Such as voting for people who's goal is to help people and not exploit them, or fight against and not support corrupted politicians.
Telle, what other choice do the Ukrainians have other than fighting? Or do you mean the Denmark government as authoritarian government?
How does me voting for "people whoβs goal is to help people and not exploit them" going to make Russia any less of a shitty and threatening neighbor?
Rulers and governments don't care about people, they care about profits and wealth. Pretty much all the west is in commercial partnership with countries arming russia like china. It's more profitable for them to keep making business with dictatorships like Emirates and building weapons rather than working toward peace and against other corrupted governments
I really don't understand what you are saying or offering as an alternative here.
But donβt you think only women being the only ones in charge of giving birth to the next generation is an obvious equality issue, too?
Well, we can't change that with legislation but we can change who gets conscripted
Sounds like something a crazy dictator would do.
Everyone will now be able to have children for the glorious motherland
What a softie. A real dictator would say something like
Everyone is now required to give birth for the glorious motherland, and those that refuse will be shot as traitors.
Average Putin moment