Do you remember the tough time in last year September. That we wearing the battle fatigues, standing under the heavy sun everyday half a month. We called it military training and the globe called ours military training as “toothbrush training”. Because everyone is taught to make the bed in the same way. Everyone is taught to place the toothbrush at the correct angle on a sink. I don’t know how boys feel, but in a girl’s eye, this experience was an unforgettable memory for me. Maybe it’s the most difficult time in my life.
I think you have guessed a bit that my thesis is “China should end compulsory military training for students of all ages.”And I’ll introduce you a word “conscription”, conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. Just like our military training.
At present, every Chinese citizen, both male and female, who attend further education are required to attend a military training period of around 20 days as a part of a military education.
In fact, military conscription only exists in theory and reinforced by law so since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Due to China's huge population and large pool of candidates available for recruitment who volunteer to join the regular armed forces, universal military conscription has never been enforced. It has not been required in practice at all.
Conscription is controversial because it violates individual rights and freedom. American libertarians oppose it, as Ron Paul says, "Conscription is wrongly associated with patriotism, when it really represents slavery and involuntary servitude."So does the philosopher Ayn Rand opposed it, he said "Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the conscription is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right—the right to life."
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