I was objecting to the claim that the best way to get people to fight for their country was to pay them a lot of money. I think this is really quite a bad way to get people to do this particular job, and forcible conscription is pretty bad too. If those are your only two options, I don’t really know which is worse. I’m sure that depends on the circumstances.
I was objecting to the claim that the best way to get people to fight for their country was to pay them a lot of money. I think this is really quite a bad way to get people to do this particular job, and forcible conscription is pretty bad too. If those are your only two options, I don’t really know which is worse. I’m sure that depends on the circumstances.
It just struck me as odd that you didn’t address the analogous argument for the other side.
Of course, you’re right, ideally people should be joining out of the goodness of their hearts.
No, wait, ideally we should find the best soldier and clone them.
Or we could just do it with flying assassin robots.
… clearly my ideal was not ideal enough compared to, say, reality.