2024-11-13T21:34:13Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/veterans-day-2024tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1618/52402024-11-13T21:34:13ZStephan<p>Remember, Switzerland's army is mostly made up of conscripts, so my context is completely different. War is horrific; conscription seems to me to be a pretty even-handed way of enlisting people to participate in it. Sure, one might still get out of it with bone spurs or academic deferment or knowing the right people, but a conscripted force should conceivably more closely represent the actual population than a force that predominantly recruits idealists or people who need the money.</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1618/52392024-11-13T21:23:54ZSursumCorda<p>Why would it NOT be?</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/1618/52382024-11-13T21:18:30ZStephan<p>What made conscription so horrific?</p>