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  • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
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    4 months ago

    That’s literally what conscription means in legal terms

    No. Conscription is you get summons and have to do military service (which is also totally wrong but a different thing). If you refuse you get sent to jail. You can simply leave the country if you don’t like that.

    What happens in Ukraine is kidnapping random people off the streets (who are forbidden from leaving the country), putting them into vans and sensing them to die.

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      4 months ago

      You’re presenting a distinction without a difference.

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

      Jail-time is the best case scenario, and in no way intrinsic to the concept.

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        4 months 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.