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Drafting Age Requirments are way too low

Postby Eastern Irish States » Tue May 26, 2009 5:24 pm

In My Oppinion they should be out of Highschool Before they can even Apply For the Millitary

We need as a Union Decide If we shou raise the Age Limmite to Atleas 20 of age

In this attempt i say we also inlist only People with a 90 Iq and Up

To Me A Race is not neccary Expcially in My Country

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Postby Urgench » Tue May 26, 2009 5:32 pm

Eastern Irish States wrote:In My Oppinion they should be out of Highschool Before they can even Apply For the Millitary

We need as a Union Decide If we shou raise the Age Limmite to Atleas 20 of age

In this attempt i say we also inlist only People with a 90 Iq and Up

To Me A Race is not neccary Expcially in My Country



So the honoured Ambassador seeks automatic disqualification from military service to their nation do they ?


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Postby Not the same Congo » Tue May 26, 2009 5:36 pm

Eastern Irish States wrote:In My Oppinion they should be out of Highschool Before they can even Apply For the Millitary

We need as a Union Decide If we shou raise the Age Limmite to Atleas 20 of age

In this attempt i say we also inlist only People with a 90 Iq and Up

To Me A Race is not neccary Expcially in My Country


First, learn how to spell. Seriously.

Secondly, in my country, they should be out of high school when they can be drafted. What country are you living in?

Unions are for buisness, not for the government. You should ask for a lobbyist.

Race should never be a factor in any country, not just yours.

Even if it was raised (which is shouldn't), it would probably be raised to 21, not 20.

IQ tests for drafts: that will never work, because that's invaiding privacy. Also, IQ tests are not the perfect way to determine intellegence. Someone might flunk an IQ test and be a genius. It's all relative.

Even if IQ tests were passed (somehow), it would probably by more around 70-75, not 90.

But that's just me.

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Postby Glen-Rhodes » Tue May 26, 2009 5:41 pm

Just to comment, an IQ of 90 is below average. An IQ of 70-75 is border metal deficiency.

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Postby Valeneska » Tue May 26, 2009 6:04 pm

The logic of this "proposal" fails. Since we do not know what the current drafting age is in your country, we'll assume it's 18, as it is in most of the world. Usually, one will have finished high school by this point. In Valeneska, high school ends at 16.

Here in Valeneska, we are not interested in raising any age limits above 18. Whoever wrote this should find a different way to disqualify themselves from national service.
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Postby Rutianas » Tue May 26, 2009 6:41 pm

Eastern Irish States wrote:In My Oppinion they should be out of Highschool Before they can even Apply For the Millitary

We need as a Union Decide If we shou raise the Age Limmite to Atleas 20 of age

In this attempt i say we also inlist only People with a 90 Iq and Up

To Me A Race is not neccary Expcially in My Country


Paula Jenner facepalms. Her aide, Liam, facepalms. The entire population of Rutianas facepalms.
"Out of high school would be a good idea, but why twenty? Is that because the Ambassador is under twenty? Why only an IQ of ninety and up? Does the Ambassador have an IQ of under ninety? The last sentence though? You lost me. I think you meant that a persons race should not affect at what age they can apply or if they can apply.

"I would like to point out, as the Honored ambassador from Valeneska did, that not all nations are out of high school at the same time. In the Republic, compulsory schooling is finished at age fifteen. At age sixteen, the individual is required to enter into five years of national service. Most often, this is military service, but we do allow for other terms of service. I might even add that our children cease to be children at age twelve. So I'm not sure why it's a concern of yours that our sixteen year old adults are conscripted into national service."

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Postby Philimbesi » Wed May 27, 2009 2:31 am

Nigel continues the facepalm wave, his aide facepalms, and after an additional second Max catches on.

The draft age in Philimbesi is 21, and is only activated by constitutional mandate and a senate vote AFTER 75% the nation's RESERVE troops have been utilized. If the ambassador has a problem with the draft age in his nation I suggest he speak with whatever body makes the laws there.


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Postby Flibbleites » Wed May 27, 2009 7:35 am

How can any WA nation's drafting age be too low, we've banned child soldiers with the Child Protection Act.

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Postby Free Celtic Lands » Wed May 27, 2009 7:42 am

The WA should not even be allowed to decide on anything other then what dtermines a child soilder and ban it. Draft requirements are not our affair. That is the duty of a nation to decide.
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Postby Philimbesi » Wed May 27, 2009 7:45 am

Free Celtic Lands wrote:The WA should not even be allowed to decide on anything other then what dtermines a child soilder and ban it. Draft requirements are not our affair. That is the duty of a nation to decide.


You may be able to stand Idly by while children are forced to fight the wars of men ambassador... but we for one are not.
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Postby Flibbleites » Wed May 27, 2009 7:52 am

Free Celtic Lands wrote:The WA should not even be allowed to decide on anything other then what dtermines a child soilder and ban it. Draft requirements are not our affair. That is the duty of a nation to decide.

You're a little too late there, the WA already has banned child soldiers.

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Postby Free Celtic Lands » Wed May 27, 2009 7:57 am

Philimbesi wrote:You may be able to stand Idly by while children are forced to fight the wars of men ambassador... but we for one are not.


First that is not what I am saying. Second of all we do will not stand idly by if children are fighting in a war. What I am saying is that the WA should npt say what age a nation can draft at. Our nation drafts at the age of 20 only in national emrgencies.
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Postby Free Celtic Lands » Wed May 27, 2009 7:59 am

Flibbleites wrote:You're a little too late there, the WA already has banned child soldiers.

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I was allready aware of that. I am just saying that the WA should only do that. The Wa has no authority to force a certain draft age for all nations hould they chose to use a draft.
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Postby Urgench » Wed May 27, 2009 9:54 am

Free Celtic Lands wrote:
Flibbleites wrote:You're a little too late there, the WA already has banned child soldiers.

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I was allready aware of that. I am just saying that the WA should only do that. The Wa has no authority to force a certain draft age for all nations hould they chose to use a draft.




The W.A. has the authority to do exactly whatever its members want it to do having expressed their will for it to do so in a resolution.


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Postby Hirota » Wed May 27, 2009 12:31 pm

Looking at just the IQ side of this gibbering - many less intelligent fellows find a career in the military a more preferable choice to other career paths.
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Postby Bears Armed » Thu May 28, 2009 4:16 am

The title looked interesting, but...
This thread isn't about finding a way of keeping the immature from writing & submitting WA proposals? Oh... :(
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Postby Charlotte Ryberg » Thu May 28, 2009 7:38 am

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Postby Meekinos » Thu May 28, 2009 8:41 am

We have tried to find the proposal but instead find in its place utter nonsense. What exactly is being proposed? A ban on the drafting of child soldiers? Surely the good ambassador realises that this has already been covered by previous resolutions. A trip over to the WA library to read past resolutions may offer up some insight.
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Postby Malikov » Fri May 29, 2009 5:05 pm

I think that the proposal is trying to eliminate stupid people from the army. ie, people who are stupid enough to sign up at 18, or who can't pass a spelling test

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