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		MrVandemar 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? National Service means largely: * Giving people guns and teaching them to kill * Teaching people to blindly follow orders barked at them by an authority figure * Enormous potential for mental health problems, including bullying, abuse and suicide * Wasting 4 productive years of someones life I'm pretty certain national service is a Bad Idea™

redhed 13 days ago | [–]

Yeah there's countries who have faced actual existential threat (South Korea, Finland, Israel, etc) and national service is still extremely unpopular.

digbybk 13 days ago | [–]

Maybe it's a bad idea, but it is an idea. "People should get out more" is _not even wrong_

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