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Okay, here's what you do for this game: You have to "ban" the person who posted above you for an outrageous, silly, or funny reason. Got it?
Banned for I don't know what the heck you just said. Also banned for not talking about cake.
banned for talking of lies.
As for Starship Troopers, I'm also glad he didn't see that movie. But I think the last person to bring up the fascist deal was just sensitive to the idea that the military (in some form or fashion) held so much power. Truth is that citizenship through service has no direct bearing on military power over civilians. Not only was that the form of government in ancient Greece, the model for later democracies, but it's currently true in Israel and Switzerland, neither of which would be considered fascist by any significant number of people. Dealing with criminals varies highly, both in fascist and democratic (or republic) countries.
I can see the benefits of such a system and the one currently in use in the U.S., but there are no right answers to everything.
Banned because now I want cake, with reassuring lies about it being good for me.
Banned because nobody who says anything on the Internet tells the truth.
Banned also because I want a slice of chocolate cake now.
Bring it to me immediately.
Banned because I only mentioned cake to see how long it would take for someone to say "the cake is a lie" and to see how many people I could get to start thinking about cake. Banned for being manipulated. Mwhahahahahaha!
Banned because today is groceries day and your evil scheme has put me at serious risk of coming home with cake that wasn't on the list.
banned for it took two posts to get anyone to say anything. So 
FAIL! but you got 
for the number of people who said it. And so it comes out to 
total! Not bad, but you could do better.
Banned for I will hurt you...
Banned because it has illegible text.
But the other way is to entangle the military deeply in every facet of life, in essence "watering it down" to the point where an average "soldier" might work not on a base but in a hospital or factory, in a noncombat position that puts him (or her) in regular contact with civilians. That way, military service becomes mainstream, and therefore nothing special, as well as something that has little to with actual soldiering for the overwhelming majority of its participants. I've never read S.T. (It's on my list), so I don't know if this is the system the book had in mind, but I could see it working that way.
banned for Israel gives you that.
Since it's mandatory, it's not that big of a deal to most of them. They don't even do all the care package stuff we do here. They're terribly short on combat units, the vast majority positioning themselves in jobs just like you describe. You see them everywhere and other than the requirement to keep their rifles on them, you would never really notice.
As for the military being marginalized, that requires them to want to do it. In Egypt and Turkey, the military is like this. Egypt's military stays out of civilian situations, even revolution, for the sake of preserving their ranks and status. Turkey's military does what a military normally does, but if an election puts a fanatic in too high a position of power, they come in and remove the person for the preservation of the nation, then call for a re-election. Once it's complete, they step back and let things move on.
Banned
for walls of text I'm both too lazy and apathetic to read. 
Xer0 \^/
Banned for typical old person actions:
whining about what teenagers do.
Xer0 \^/
banned for typical teenager actions:
whining about what old people say.
Banned for young and old people whining about what one or the other says/does.
Draak: Who was whining? I was stating the obvious. If I'd whine about anything, it'd be about something more relevant than old people.
Banned because religion blows. Nihilism, all the way.
Xer0 \^/
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