Conscription is slavery and slavery is evil. If a country has to resort to slavery then it doesn't deserve to exist.
Furthermore, it's no longer medieval times, where the citizens are personally loyal to a king who is expected to be replaced by another king some time. The invention of nationalism guarantees civilian resistance, so the only way to safely rule a subjugated country in modern times is with a brutal North Korean-style regime.
Putin wants war, he doesn't care if your head of government/country has children or not. He just wants to expand his soviet union or to gain more influence or whatever the current reason for his invasions is.
This "let the politicians fight it out" would only make sense if there was a real disagreement between two countries, not just one guy saying "I want your land and your people" and the other one going "fuck now, I don't want anything to do with you".
Required military service sucks, but so does Putin.
Come on, that's nonsense logic. "Lets' make sloppy comparisons and reason from them," is never goes anywhere good. It's the same way you get to other nonsense like "taxation is theft."
If you live in a community, that means sometimes the community makes decisions for you. That's not slavery, or theft, or any inflammatory word you care to choose to describe it.
Your logic is the nonsense logic used by every evil man to justify whatever atrocity they feel necessary, responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths in the 20th century alone. If every human being in the world stood up and said no to taxation and no to conscription, there wouldn't have been any world wars or genocides.
It's not the "community" that decides to war, in almost all cases politicians who have a vested financial interest in war and nothing to lose, sending common people to die who have everything to lose and nothing to gain.
I think your problem is you're being too black and white and focusing too much on extreme examples. It's absolutely true that if you live in a community, that means sometimes the community makes decisions for you. If an "evil man" somehow gets control of that community, that's a different issue.
> If every human being in the world stood up and said no to taxation and no to conscription, there wouldn't have been any world wars or genocides.
Maybe so, but what other bad things would that impossible collective decision have caused (which is particularly true that you talk about taxation and conscription in the same breath). Everyone would certainly be living in a much lower level of technological development, without access to effective modern medical care and likely subject to famine, etc. Without taxation, you don't have law beyond custom, and without that you have no modern capitalism.
And that kind of collective decision is a fantasy. Reality means the people who "say no to taxation and conscription" become the prey of people who do and organize themselves at a higher level.
I don't believe you grasp the intricacies of motivations of people who decided to be politicians and won the race to the top where they can start wars at will. To many of them the root cause is not money, which they already have more than they can consume in many lifetimes, but the desire to grow their power.
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Conscription is slavery is not a comparison. Conscription satisfies any definition of slavery not designed to exclude conscription. Is it justifiable is a different question. Is taxation theft is a different question.