Comments by "Tomas Vrabec" (@tomasvrabec1845) on "Why Europe is Reinstating Conscription" video.
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I was never against the concept of Conscription. I am usually against specific parts of Conscriptions.
1. Gender equality, women should be included. They don't have to necessarily have the same training, heck they could have an option which kind they want to do. But they should have a form of it too.
2. I myself am a migrant (EU to other European country) and actively lived in my settled country since 12 (2/3 of the time in one, 1/3 in the other) and since 18 I spend almost all the time in my settled country.
For people like me, retrospective Conscription is not possible. Often it comes with a huge fine, or with a demand to return for a year... Quitting your job and leaving your family. I do not see any sense in such law for those actively working, residing and having a family abroad.
You may argue - you have the citizenship hence you must. But you cannot legally get rid of your only citizenship and it costs couple of thousands to get the citizenship of the host country... So you are kind of stuck.
3. The training has to be useful for both Wartime and non wartime times. Survival training is good, fighting is good but medical knowledge stays, emergency situation training stays, teamwork and cooperation stays. You are taking young people out of the national economy for a year/two. They deserve to be trained in such a way that it would benefit the wider population and economy even after their training, even if no war happens.
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