Garret Rodgers
The problem with mandatory military service has always been an issue in many countries. Some people strongly support this idea while others are defiantly against it. Military service is mandatory in most countries around the world. For example, in some European countries, people from the ages of 18-25 have to serve at least 2 years of military service, whether it is in the army, air force or the navy. However in other countries such as Britain, United States and others, military service is optional. Should there be mandatory military service in all countries around the world?
The first argument that involves mandatory service in the military is that young adults would stay out of trouble more if they were forced to serve at least 2 years in the military. In today’s society there are a lot of teenagers and young adults between the ages of 17-25 that are on the streets doing awful things that should not be happening. If military service were to be mandatory, young adults and teenagers would be disciplined in a way that they would learn how to be polite and to be more mature. The downside for mandatory military service for young adults is that most people that would be forced to serve for at least 2 years would not be motivated at all because most of them would not want to be serving for their own country.
The second argument on why military service should be mandatory is that since people are living in a country that offers free health care or a country that has no dictatorships, should they give back and fight for their own country? People do not have to fight in wars to give back to their country. There are jobs in the military that help their country without going off to war, for example, helping their own country or other countries clean up after weather disasters. If every young adult served for a short time in the military, their country would be a better country than it would be today. Other countries around the world would look back and realise how great that country is because people are giving back for what the fortunate things that happen in their country. Governments do not have to hand out free health care and they do not have to be kind to all of their civilians. They could be totally opposite. Serving for your own country is not a hard thing to ask to do but some people just do not care about what goes on outside their country. The downside for people that are forced to give back to their country by using military service is that you could put someone into a war or a training exercise and they want to have nothing to do with it which could mess up the mission itself. People are only as strong as their weakest link, and if that person holds everyone back, it could cost a life not a war.
The final argument which involves fighting for your own freedom is an argument that can get out of hand. There are quite a few free countries around the world including the United Kingdom that don’t have to worry about dictatorships or being beaten if someone does anything wrong. We all live in a free country that did not become free from some person saying ‘this is a free country’. It became free because there were people risking their lives to make this country free and there are people who still risk their lives to keep it a free country for us. People should be put into the military service for
