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  Funny you talk about empathy but don't extend the same to him. It's "imaginary line" when convenient to antagonize the offending country but when someone doesn't want to risk their life for some imaginary line they're a privileged blissfully ignorant sociopath. 
  Home is more about your family and your people. I would very much rather have all of them moved to another country safely than risk to protect the plot of land you call "home". Even If it's privileged it's also the most understandable and normal point of view
context: Knowing how to operate a rifle is only one tiny little bit of the training one needs to be effective in combat. >
  
  
  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 >
  
  If the country is worth defending, you don't need compulsory military service. People will just volunteer to fight. If your country is shit, people will not fight to defend it. If your country is shit, you NEED to have compulsory military service simply because you can't convince people to voluntarily fight. Fascists use force, threats and fear and maintain their regime. >
  
  Wow... the level of privilege dripping from that statement is ridiculous.  I am going to guess you have never served.  And have never been in a situation where people were fighting for the survival of their home and family.  And you obviously have never lived fearing what might come the next day because the people across an imaginary line have rifles, artillery, and missiles pointed at you. 
  How comforting it must be to live in that blissful ignorance and not having to exert any empathy towards those who live on the knife's edge.