• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    why can’t I decide what’s best for me? ages 18-21 I worked for my local city in projects designed to get local young people at risk of offending into projects like (legal) graffiti, music, arts, sports and volunteering.

    Surely that was a better benefit to society than learning how to walk in the same rhythm as a group of other people?

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        5 months ago

        but we let these “kids” choose their degrees, or jobs and - indeed potentially train them for the military - at that age.

        And who is to say the military is the right choice? If someone yells at me to do push ups in the mud - in any other context I am well within my rights to tell them to fuck off. Which is entirely normal behavior.

        In general, yes, the majority of people are doing some kind of good for themselves, families and communities. People volunteer, raise kids, donate to charity, recycle, care for sick relatives, help their neighbors and friends…

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            5 months ago

            it’s interesting to me that you see childhood obesity as “an absence of military training” and not such things as

            • lack of support for health education in schools
            • lack of health meal choices for school cafeterias
            • lack of free support materials for parents
            • subsidies and support for low income families to get access to fresh and healthy foods
            • tariffs on high fat and high sugar foods
            • regulation on grocery store prices
            • more free activities for young people
            • subsidized sports programs and facilities
            • etc etc

            “oh that’s expensive”

            the us military spends $64,000 per second every second.