[PhoenixAzul]

In the words of an Irish pub tune, NO, NAY, NEVER, NO MORE!

I just think it is counter productive to the spirit of service to FORCE someone to do community work. And I don't think it would help chairities at all, because people aren't doing the work because they *want* to, theyre just there taking up space because they don't feel like shooting/being shot at.

Honestly, if there's ever a draft or forced conscription, that's the last straw for me. Eff it. I'd up and move back here to the UK/ Eire. I'd rather denounce my citizenship than FORCE people into life courses they don't want to do. That's part of that whole "persuit of happiness" thing. Personally, my persuit of happiness is in university, not shooting people, and not being FORCED to serve my community. I serve my community because I WANT to, not because the government is giving me a choice between Meals on Wheels and a machine gun.

Service, true community service, should be a DESIRE, something you WANT to do because you have compassion and care for your neighbor, anything else I think is antithetical to that.

And what about young people with children? Ship them off to some godforsaken piece of land? Or make them do voluntary service and not have a job, making them rely on the gov't for more handouts, not to mention taking them away from their children?