Right, but my point is that you are still being forced. The legal definition of force isn’t someone successfully gets you to do the thing they wanted to, it’s being coerced via the threat of violence or imprisonment.
Even if you decide to frag your commander, your life is still being endangered. Also, what you are advocating is a lot easier to say than do. Lower enlisted conscripts during unpopular wars develop a pretty strong bond because there is a lack of choice. No one wants to be there and no one really wants to die, or see their buddies get meaninglessly killed.
Militaries who regularly employ conscripted forces know how to control and manipulate there conscripts into doing their jobs, even when they really don’t want to. If you want some pretty horrific accounts of this you can read about Russian conscription during the days of the Romanov empire.
Right, but my point is that you are still being forced. The legal definition of force isn’t someone successfully gets you to do the thing they wanted to, it’s being coerced via the threat of violence or imprisonment.
Even if you decide to frag your commander, your life is still being endangered. Also, what you are advocating is a lot easier to say than do. Lower enlisted conscripts during unpopular wars develop a pretty strong bond because there is a lack of choice. No one wants to be there and no one really wants to die, or see their buddies get meaninglessly killed.
Militaries who regularly employ conscripted forces know how to control and manipulate there conscripts into doing their jobs, even when they really don’t want to. If you want some pretty horrific accounts of this you can read about Russian conscription during the days of the Romanov empire.