| Assuming you can just ask people to risk their lives to defend the state is both. Only in the cannibalistic belief of men being disposable non-sentient material for blood sacrifices on the state altar rather than real humans with rights. It is a question of priorities, not naivety. if you arrest an innocent person (or even sentence an innocent person to life in prison), you're obviously harming that person's freedom This only happens as a mistake, which makes your analogy completely nonsensical. No one in their right mind argues in favor of a false dichotomy like "Yeah, we just imprison random bypassers en masse and hope that some of them happen to be criminals. Do you want complete lawlessness otherwise or what?"
Forced conscription is not a mistake, it is intentional and official violation of human rights. Similarly with wars and conscription: without it, most (all?) states are too weak to defend and fall This sophistry can be adapted for virtually any crime against humanity. How states without slavery can defend against states with slavery? They don't have a significant pool of free labor. How states without death camps can defend against states with death camps? Their traitors/potential collaborators/regime enemies are all alive and roaming free. etc etc In reality, however, we don't see complete extinction of states with human rights replaced by the most inhumane regimes possible, not even the prevalence of the latter. The reason of that is very obvious: normal sane people aren't exactly enthusiastic to live in, defend or otherwise support the state that doesn't even consider them humans. Specifically in Ukraine and Russia with strong animal protection laws, stray dogs right now have more rights than male conscripts. Competing states with worse human rights (forced draft) or perhaps much worse human rights. Yet another sneaky attempt to minimise the atrocity scale. The state strips you of all human rights and sends you to the slaughter. What much worse human rights can you imagine? The state slaughtering you directly? Is that much worse? Here's the thing, however: people could easily escape before the war. That's a nice try at victim blaming but they could not. Before the war Ukraine was a usual third world country and like with most countries moving somewhere else wasn't easy at all. Current refugee programs weren't available for Ukrainians back then. |