Conscription should not be brought back to Australia. Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of citizens for state service, typically into the armed forces. Conscription is an imposition on basic freedoms, it is not suited for modern militaries and in some cases causes severe psychological trauma to those involved. Thus conscription should not be brought back to Australia under any circumstances.
Conscription should not be brought back to Australia, as it is an imposition on basic freedoms and tantamount to slavery- an immoral act by any standard. It is a perversion of the Australian core- rather than a government of, by and for the people; it is the people of, by and for the government. According to the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights, …show more content…
And what is conscription if not the involuntary servitude of the citizens of Australia. Ultimately, the issue of required military service revolves around the idea of freedom. Since some are persuaded that free individuals can't be trusted to make what they claim to be “the best decision”, they accept that they must be compelled to make the “best decision”. What they neglect to perceive is that in compelling individuals to make the “best decision”, they devastate the very freedom they claim to need to ensure. They successfully obliterate freedom to secure freedom. As President Reagan recognized, “the most fundamental objection is moral”; conscription “destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending.” Clearly conscription goes against everything that Australia stands for, and as such conscription should not be brought back.
Conscription should not be brought back to Australia, as it is not suited for modern militaries. The world lives in a day where there is no clear black or white, good or bad, the world lives in the shadows and so too do …show more content…
To put it simply, some are not cut out for war. To take another’s life is not easy, but to live with it after, that is the hard part, some people are just not designed to kill, and if forced to in a life and death situation the results are often disastrous, often they will freeze up which can result in their imminent death. But if they do manage to pull the trigger, then often something inside them will snap irreversibly, and no amount of therapy will be able to revive them, they will be lost. However it is not just the psychological shock of taking a life, it is the build-up prior to service. The social pressure. As Tim O’Brien said in The Things They Carried, “Intellect had come up against emotion. My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me towards the war. What it came down to, stupidly, was a sense of shame” in this story the character does not want to go to war but at the same time is too ashamed not to go and he becomes sick with fear. The social pressure was too great and he eventually succumbed and went to the war. Where it was a kill or be killed situation. Recently a South Korean conscript identified by his last name –Yim, opened fire at an outpost near the North Korean border, he murdered five comrades and wounded several others. A Defense Ministry official confirmed Yim
Conscription should not be brought back to Australia, as it is an imposition on basic freedoms and tantamount to slavery- an immoral act by any standard. It is a perversion of the Australian core- rather than a government of, by and for the people; it is the people of, by and for the government. According to the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights, …show more content…
And what is conscription if not the involuntary servitude of the citizens of Australia. Ultimately, the issue of required military service revolves around the idea of freedom. Since some are persuaded that free individuals can't be trusted to make what they claim to be “the best decision”, they accept that they must be compelled to make the “best decision”. What they neglect to perceive is that in compelling individuals to make the “best decision”, they devastate the very freedom they claim to need to ensure. They successfully obliterate freedom to secure freedom. As President Reagan recognized, “the most fundamental objection is moral”; conscription “destroys the very values that our society is committed to defending.” Clearly conscription goes against everything that Australia stands for, and as such conscription should not be brought back.
Conscription should not be brought back to Australia, as it is not suited for modern militaries. The world lives in a day where there is no clear black or white, good or bad, the world lives in the shadows and so too do …show more content…
To put it simply, some are not cut out for war. To take another’s life is not easy, but to live with it after, that is the hard part, some people are just not designed to kill, and if forced to in a life and death situation the results are often disastrous, often they will freeze up which can result in their imminent death. But if they do manage to pull the trigger, then often something inside them will snap irreversibly, and no amount of therapy will be able to revive them, they will be lost. However it is not just the psychological shock of taking a life, it is the build-up prior to service. The social pressure. As Tim O’Brien said in The Things They Carried, “Intellect had come up against emotion. My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me towards the war. What it came down to, stupidly, was a sense of shame” in this story the character does not want to go to war but at the same time is too ashamed not to go and he becomes sick with fear. The social pressure was too great and he eventually succumbed and went to the war. Where it was a kill or be killed situation. Recently a South Korean conscript identified by his last name –Yim, opened fire at an outpost near the North Korean border, he murdered five comrades and wounded several others. A Defense Ministry official confirmed Yim