Talk:Imperial Commonwealth/@comment-25584152-20150822010146/@comment-25584152-20150822140002

OOC how would you know about their human rights? After you answer that then this post happens.

IC We will cut down on severity of punishment to soldiers. Children being armed? Everyone has a different idea of a child. Our is militarized where nothing is considered a civilian target. If we get nuked the NYP doesn't apply because even if the children aren't armed their parents are. Shouldn't they at least have a knowledge of what the outside world is like. Now I may disagree with some policies enacted during my absence but it is still quite recent from when I myself was in their posistion. I was pulled from my home and given a crash course in how to murder in cold blood. I went from normal school to firing automatic weapons in a day. This was terrifying. I was up at 5:30 every morning training from 6:00-1:00 then eating and training more from 1:45-9:00. We give these kids an idea of this and ease them into it. For example when you draft troops and they get shipped out do they have any idea what they're going into, do they know what it's like to loose their best friend? Do they know how it feels to take a life? I know both. I learned when I was 12. I have talked to soldiers who were drafted and those who went through the system. Those who were trained for it their whole life thought the transition to real war much easier. Fewer cases of PTSD, depression, alchoholism.

We give our citizens much freedom, when they aren't in training they are free to do as they like. They aren't forced to live on a base for years at a time, they switch out posts every week or two and can see their families. This is because of us having a large quantity of trained people. If not even in peace we would have people on post for years without seeing their family or friends. Arming kids? How is this any different then letting them play with sticks? We supervise it all and train them on nonlethal first.

The changes we will make is lessen punishment on soldiers, and give children a choice, at every year they choose to enter a either a full or minimal program. The full program leaves no time for extracurricular activities and is pretty much what we currently do. The minimal program leaves out music, physical education, and military training to make room for option extracurricular activities. Either way at the age of 12 you are considered fair to draft(they have finished the equivalent of high school). At 20 you must go through a mandatory 5 years of active military service followed by 10 year as reserve. Then you are done unless all reserves are already called up then you may be required to do military service.

This enough?

~Trinity Winter