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It's about being a good person, really, and it's about that nudge from the school into an experience that very few would have if they weren't nudged.
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My argument is only that it is not the schools place to provide that nudge. The school is there to teach how to add, subtract, multiply and divide, how to construct a sentence, where our borders end and the other guy’s begins, and so on.
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Aside from that, it's great to suddenly have gaggles of volunteers in a community.
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Doesn’t that smack of
forced labor?
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Imagine a program like this leading to reduced pollution in parks or a smaller homeless population. That's mutually beneficial to the community and the individual. The community is improved, and the individual learns about respect, duty, honor, and such.
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And again…I bring up the Boy Scouts. Sounds, to me, like
exactly what they do.
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Slavery is getting up at dawn and working until dusk for no money and without freedom.
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Certainly, that’s
one form of slavery. I would define slavery a little more broadly. Perhaps slavery can also mean forcing the citizenry to do that which they would otherwise be disinclined to do, mutual benefit or no.
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Mandatory civic duty isn't slavery
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By that logic, the neither is mandatory military service. Somehow, I don’t get the impression that this is something that you would be in support of.
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Do you want to disrespect slaves?
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Oh, please…
