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[deborahkla]

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[hardblue]

But where is the freedom? And I don't see any guns and rifles there. ;)

[telemann]

NO Libertay!

[hardblue]

Americans may not be happy, but we are free and tough, and, what's more, we don't need no stinking science!

[moonshaz]

And we don't need no stinking free shit! Bootstraps, baby, bootstraps!

Typing that was painful. Seriously painful. Knowing there are people who actually think that way is even more painful.

[hardblue]

Dark comedy can be therapeutic.
The world will ever break your heart.

[planet_x_zero]

They don't have the sweet, sweet love for war-all-the-time like we do in the US. Sissies.

[hardblue]

And they call themselves a country? Hah!

[anfalicious]

They have compulsory national service.

[the_rukh]

Quiet, we're fantasizing.

[johnny9fingers]

Which in no way obviates the point. In fact one could consider it to be causal, even.

[deborahkla]

National Service doesn't always mean military service. I'm of the opinion that if everyone had to put in some form of national service for at least two years after graduating from college, they'd be the better for it.

Plus, in most countries where the education is free there is compulsory national service of some sort to repay in kind.

[yes_justice]

I want all the kids to build us a national fiber network.

[anfalicious]

Only about 25% of Danes wind up having to do it (and some for only 3 months). There's not enough jobs that need doing. And they do heaps of non-military stuff (fire fighting, forest management, environmental corps.).

They were in Afghanistan and Iraq though :P