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Originally posted by theking
The young people of this country should be required to serve the country that they reap the benefits of. This burden should not be borne alone by a certain class of people.
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What is a country but a place that is home to a community of people? There would be no services in a country if its people didn't work and pay taxes. There would be no culture without people. Whether a country is a democracy or a dictatorship is determined by its people. And so on.
In other words, everything that makes a country more than a piece of land, all of what you describe as benefits, are provided by the people themselves. Day in day out, simply by living, doing what we do, thinking as we do, we define our country.
Even when military action is necessary to defend a country, the troops have to be armed and fed. There must be a country worth coming back to when the fighting is over. There is never a time when the only way to serve is in uniform.
Your kind of statement is emotive rhetoric intended to make people feel guilty about speaking out when they perceive that peoples' lives are being spent, not in defense of country, but in pursuit of political ideology or personal gain.