Maryam Karami: Military Service

Any mandatory issues in human’s life look mostly unpleasant, but not necessarily all of them are useless. Even mandatory duties could bring us such delightful memories that no other time or situation could, but it could be reverse, too. Based on this idea, mandatory military service in some countries has both bright sides and dark sides.

Mandatory military service is beneficial in some ways. First of all, the military service has positive personal. Wordy, a soldier serving in the military learns to be more responsible and organized in his life. There are rules that teach every soldier to be disciplined in their lives. The other good point is the difficult trainings and staying far from comfortable home environment and close friends provides a tough situation that automatically gives them stronger personality and self-steam. Secondly, military has positive social effects. The positive social effects diverge to two main views; for example, in case of war a trained army would be needed in any society to protect the country and people. Also, in some emergencies a trained group of soldiers could help efficiently, like earth quakes, fire or any other disasters.

However, mandatory military service has negative effects in some points too. First, one of the personal disadvantages is that there is no little income for the person who serves in the military. The other one is the period of life time that is spent in this way could be used to be trained in a desirable profession. Secondly, the dark side of such duties can affect on the society. One of the major issues is that the young group of the society, who have to serve the military, sometimes gets a very negative and aggressive attitude toward government that puts social security in danger. The other one is that the government has to assign a noticeable budget to train and keep a large group of soldiers during their mandatory service period.

Despite the advantages, in my opinion, mandatory military service is necessary. It is important to be ready in order to defend the country and also in any widespread or sever situation. It is going to be too late to gather and train groups if needs come, yet considering the importance of each person’s life, mandatory military service has to be short in time and paid for reasonably.