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Yep, and civilians, and bomb a wedding in a country you're not even at war with.

It's especially bad with mobilization of people... We can act as if we're a democracy, but even if we have a referendum (vote) if we want to fight <this war>, you get a bunch of people who won't have to go to the front lines and die (women, pensioners, disabled people) decide if a minority (young men) will die there. Forced mobilization should not exist in a democratic society, if you don't get volounteers to fight (and possibly die), you already know the democratic choice of the people whose opinion actually matters.




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