Broad conscription solves the kind of problems that are best solved when an large army and the soldiers have been trained for a only few months. It's not clear to me that Germany has that sort of problem.

I completely disagree. Military service should be voluntary considering the risks and long term mental health effects.

If my country ever implements conscription, the first thing I’m doing is getting another country’s citizenship at all cost, maybe the “enemy”’s out of spite.

You would most likely be doing IT or writing code to support logistics.

Maybe with conscription you would be more involved with how your country uses the military?

You both have very valid takes. If we had to implement any system like this, I would prefer it to be some type of national service system where each young person could chose an area of social welfare or military service to give back in a way that aligned with their goals and moral view.

It may surprise you that the happiest country in the world, Finland, has universal conscription.

Well, Finland has generally good governance and I would assume less racism. I wouldn’t mind getting conscripted if I actually supported my country and had confidence that the military isn’t used to carry out evil.

Its been a while since germanys army has been used for evil.,.

I wasn’t talking about Germany specifically.