Short Take: What if instead of mass Conscription… we had mass Euthanasia?
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What if instead of mass Conscription… we had mass Euthanasia?
Recruitment numbers are down, even in the current relative peace, for many reasons. But first and foremost because the pay for military service isn’t commiserate with the risk, effort, or social/bureaucratic headache, and modern states so far have refused to increase pay to attract the requisite volunteers.
The thing is though: the state is already often paying vastly more than soldiers cost to keep the elderly alive, who not only provide ZERO war-fighting capability but tie down nurses doctors, and other workers vital to war efforts.
Instead of resorting to random lottery Conscription of the young to die, creating mass animosity, and further distorting population demographics and the prospects for future births…. Instead the state could use the same lottery system to kill off the elderly, free up billions in funds and pay glorious volunteers what they’re worth (six figures for a developed country) Attracting any who don’t want to become defacto underclass post-war when the rich warrior aristocrats return home.
Indeed the functional implications are vastly easier than conscription. with conscription, especially in armed or ethnically divided societies, there’s the real risk that wide segments of the population who hate the government decide they’d rather just fight a civil war at home, than go and attract artillery in a foreign war they don’t believe in against an enemy they might even admire.
In Ukraine we saw many passionate ethnic Russian Ukrainians join the Donbass militias or Russian military to fight against “Their” government and “Their” countrymen… and even amongst nominally loyal Ukrainians many have resisted conscription to the point that armed press gangs are a common (and necessary) sight on Ukrainian streets.
By contrast the most costly of the elderly in their nursing homes cannot resist euthanasia (indeed many wouldn’t know it was occurring) and as for those whose numbers come up but who are still independent in the wild… no further effort need be taken… simply change an “N“ to a ”Y“ in some spreadsheets under the column “Diseased” and halt all fund transfers for Pensions, benefits, Old Age Security, Medicare benefits, living allowances, Etc.
after which most will either expire on their own or after waiting a day or two would willingly report for a hot meal and and one final vaccination.
Some of course will be able to provide for themselves out of savings or work which their bodies are still capable of… these can simply be left til such a time as medical emergency or traffic violations organically and nearly costlessly deliver them into the waiting hands of the termination teams… who unlike press gangs need not employ a half dozen fit men who could be manning a trench, but rather termination could easily be carried out by mid 30s female medical clerks, who are otherwise too obese or uncoordinated to contribute to the war effort.
All the social turmoil of a draft, the outrageous loss of liberty, the slaughter of young men, the inevitable gender war when women aren’t drafted, the drain on social trust, the extreme expense of press gangs, the loss of morale and unit effectiveness, the fragging of officers, the defacto ultimatum to political dissidents that they must choose NOW whether to fight for their country, become outlaws, join a terrorist movement, or indeed join the enemy…
All of the chaos, rioting, ethnic tension, and political upheaval of a draft could ALL be replaced with a simple random number generator which turns Ns into Ys on a spreadsheet and enacts the resultant non-release of funds. And then those funds can be redirected to radically increased soldiers salaries such that recruiters can start being selective and REJECTING volunteers again.
In the US military, currently only 30-35% of its budget of 840 billion dollars goes to personnel costs or about 300 billion dollars annually on salaries and benefits. By contrast Medicaid/Medicare + Social Security currently cost the US over 3 TRILLION dollars annually. A mere 20% cut in these costs via a culling of only the most aged, cancer ridden, diabetic, senile, and costly elderly... The most hopeless,costly, actively damaging, and unable to resist 2-5% of the retired population, who in the midst of a war might send 10s of thousands of dollars to an Indian phone scammer as their only relevant action, that even in the midst of a war they might send resources to lesser enemies… just cutting THAT would allow the release of Funds sufficient to TRIPLE soldiers salaries and compensation.
young men wouldn’t be able to afford NOT to volunteer.
Indeed as an added incentive service members would be being permanently removed from the lists for random culling in future wars and would allow you designate 2 aged relatives to be exempted from the culling.
Service guarantees senility!
Rather this culling would only effect those who have never served and have no close family who’ve ever served.
Indeed much like the Civil War draft, the government could allow the elderly to purchase their way out of the lottery via some extraordinary expenditure of funds, say 300,000 dollars for 4 years of exemption from the lottery (enough to wait out a war)… this would immediately flood the military with funds, and would exceed the immediate wartime savings an individual culling would generate.
indeed not even the most constitutionalist anti-government libertarian could not object to this plan… as they will tell you a million times about Welfare, social security, and other benefits: Its not your money.
You have no right to them.
Aging boomers burn through the equivalent of what they contributed to social security in just a handful of years after turning 65. For Medicare and Medicaid there isn’t even a fiction that money contributed is somehow retained or tied to benefits paid out.
If it requires the taxation of others then its not a right, its theft.
Euthanizing these barely conscious cost centers indeed is not even necessary, for military purposes merely ending the remit of funds and ending the providing of life sustaining service is sufficient.. rather Euthanizing them is almost entirely a mercy and aesthetic consideration, representing a small additional cost in labor and chemical material… if for religious or libertarian ethical considerations society would refuse to kill these elderly we cut off… then they can merely be wheeled out of the nursing homes and into the streets from which they’d be at perfect liberty to return home or rent lodgings if capable… or a family member could pick them up if available. but obviously 50-90% would merely sit there and expire of exposure… Crucified to their wheelchairs and hospital beds. Libertarianly.
Indeed the constitution doesn’t even authorize such federal welfare programs. Nowhere is it delegated to the federal government the power to provide healthcare or a national retirement insurance scheme. Ending it and leaving the aged to either quick palliative treatment or to fend for themselves, merely returns America CLOSER to the constitutional order of the founders.
But it does something more: it makes the elderly who over a lifetime have never served nor any member of their family, but who vote for war and the drafting of young men… it makes them pay for their bellicosity.
Why should an 18 who has never been given a vote and won’t be for another 2 years til the next election, be forced to die before that election for the voting of senile 80 year olds who’ve never served in their lives and whose minds are such mush they vote not for any policy consideration but because Vladimir Putin subconsciously reminds them of their ex -wife’s second husband?
End the moral horror of mass conscription. Euthanasia Now!
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Didn't we already have that? What was the COVID treatment protocol of Remdesivir and pressure on the lungs via respirators but an extermination play?
I propose a compromise: conscript the elderly.