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That's possible, but very few people can handle such conditions themselves I'd bet.

Good chance they'll just follow you out of the cities eventually. I'm not sure if there's any escape from these sorts of people, similar sort of people who were more than happy to go door-to-door in the Soviet Union, even in remote villages.

And I bet that most Western nations will bring it right back once a major war starts.

Well...Those three nations are known for some specific behaviors and historical tendencies lmao. Hardly comparable to John Smith the American, or Jean Luc the Frenchman. But yus, you can certainly brainwash a populace into becoming human Zerglings.

I mean just don't be surprised when conscription results in a lot of angry dudes going against their own government when they realize stuff is overly unfair. People aren't the simple peasants they used to be, even the dumbest person can read advanced philosophy and politics nowadays. Its harder...

I'd rather have a nation sufficiently well-liked and respected that it's civilians would gladly serve it militarily. Overly idealistic, yeah, but that's my preference. I'm all for conscription provided that nobody is exempt. That means women, that means bankers, that means politicians.

Conscription is to put it bluntly, forcing people to do military service. If you need to conscript people, you have a lack of volunteering people. And if you have a lack of volunteers, it might be for a very good reason. I cannot say that a good nation would force anybody to do anything...

I kinda like this viewpoint. If a war is so dire, so needed, and the nation is at the brink of destruction, people will willingly join. People defend what is theirs unless something is faulty with them. So if they aren't fighting, they're either not defending what is theirs, or they have...

You could make the argument that conscription is moral if its unbiased and the conscripting nation actually cares about it's people. There's a difference between "We need you on the front lines now or we're all dead" and "Meat for the meatgrinder BRRRRRRRR!"