alt Hacker NewsNational Service means largely:
* Giving people guns and teaching them to kill
* Teaching people to blindly follow orders barked at them by an authority figure
* Enormous potential for mental health problems, including bullying, abuse and suicide
* Wasting 4 productive years of someones life
I'm pretty certain national service is a Bad Idea™
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digbybk • 01/16/2026
Maybe it's a bad idea, but it is an idea. "People should get out more" is _not even wrong_
Yeah there's countries who have faced actual existential threat (South Korea, Finland, Israel, etc) and national service is still extremely unpopular.