Excidium Planetis wrote:"Conscripts get paid. Slaves do not. Never compare the two again."
"Slaves are provided scraps of food and their masters say they would starve without their generosity. Conscripts are paid a wage and told they are being compensated for their forced service."
Excidium Planetis wrote:"Our nation practices conscription because the people want it that way. If they didn't, they would repeal the conscription laws through our democratic process, would they not?"
"That is rather the ideal of Democracy, is it not? Yet it rarely works that way. Few are those that wish to be forced to march to war against their will."