The most vocal against this concept of youth internships, CRYING waaaah "slavery" and "you're not the boss of me",
are the children.
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Kids SCREAM for their rights, but quickly leave the room when responsibility comes due.
Grow up, boys & girls. SO self-centered to think you are "owed" all these freedoms.
This is definitely a generalization, a prejudgement, and almost an ad hominem attack.
To me it seems like a much better idea to let people find their own way in life than force people to choose some sort of goobermint service.
You mean some further government service, as I give over 1/3rd of the fruits of my labor to the government. And I work two jobs. Add those two to high school and you're facing 55 hour weeks.
Tell me how I could benefit from military or government service.
You don't know me.
You don't know what's best for me.
I have no right to confiscate more of your money in taxes so my high school could have some goddamn ventilation, so you certainly have no right to tell me that I have to go fight your foreign wars/build your bridges/whatever else the .gov thinks is best.
I'll say it again: Presuming you know what's best for other people (especially millions of people you've never met) is the worst kind of political arrogance, and acting on those presumptions to deprive people of their liberty is fascism.
EDIT:
And I think people missed this, and should take a much closer look at it:
natedog said:
What is the purpose of the military?
Hint: It isn't a daycare center or dicipline school.