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Live far enough out in the woods that if they go looking for you, they will probably just... never be heard from again?

That you think you know what I want or support, based only on what you find inside your own head, tells me all I need to know about how seriously to take your arguments.

Also, I have a suspicion that the people most keen to have the government force everyone else into the military, will often have some excuse as to why this should not apply to themselves. Just to other people.

What I'm seeing from the pro-conscription side boils down to: "We need conscription because people won't sign up to defend the regime unless they're forced to at gunpoint." Maybe the problem's not the people there...

And then the other country loses the occupation.

Anarcho-anything does not continue in perpetuity. To quote myself: Anarchy lasts only until someone gets a few lads together and creates a new government.

But does it? That's the whole topic here. Does whatever gang of clowns that happens to be in power in some part of the world have "the right" to treat the people of that land as cannon-fodder?

This is not entirely true. Co-operation for mutual benefit is something with strong survival advantages. The bane of the biggest sociopath is a group of other guys, individually less big and less sociopathic, all ganging up on him. Yes, this world is a fallen and corrupted place. But one of...

Well, considering the context here - if only there was some group of people you could join up with, who would not only teach you how to fight effectively, but any fight you got into, you would be there as part of a group who were all on the same side together, and equipped with some really good...

Oh they're worse than that. They don't just want free healthcare for the people of that country - by itself not too bad a notion, done properly - they want free everything for anyone who shows up. And by that they mean anyone from anywhere in the world. Open borders, unlimited mass immigration...

If you want to take the line that being expected to serve in the military is one of the "responsibilities of citizenship", then to be consistent you should be willing to accept that only those liable for conscription - or maybe even only those who have served - should get to vote or hold public...