alt Hacker NewsThe article is using "voluntary" in a very questionable fashion.
> Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, has voted to introduce voluntary military service...
> The form will be mandatory for men and voluntary for women.
> The government says military service will be voluntary for as long as possible, but from July 2027, all 18-year-old men will have to take a medical exam to assess their fitness for possible military service.
> a form of compulsory military service could be considered by the Bundestag.
Well, that escalated quickly. There's nothing here that could be really described as "voluntary".
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> The form will be mandatory for men and voluntary for women.
>mandatory for men and voluntary for women.
this is what "patriarchy" actually looks like but you sure won't see anybody on the left complain about that....
> There's nothing here that could be really described as "voluntary".
that's the same "voluntary" they use for Chat Control, by the way.
Military service was only recently abolished in Germany. And compared to the old system, this one would qualify as voluntary for now. This might not remain that way, but that's probably an issue to discuss if and when that happens. There's all kinds of other challenges at that point, and I think at that point challenges based on fairness could be valid (as only some people are drafted, not everyone).