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  Compulsory military service is a massive human rights violation and a form of fascism.
  
  That is the single most ignorant thing I have read this month.  Compulsory military service is not a human rights violation or a form of fascism, it is a method to make sure that your population is trained and ready to defend themselves in the event of an invasion from a larger force... You know, like China.
  It is used by nearly every nation that has a belligerent on its border.  For example:
  
  Ukraine
  Finland
  South Korea
  Germany (during the Cold War)
  Austria
  Georgia
  Greece
  Lithuania
  Estonia
  Norway
  Sweden
  Switzerland
  Armenia
context: Knowing how to operate a rifle is only one tiny little bit of the training one needs to be effective in combat.