fly boy
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Because the country needs a military. Generally speaking, privileges are things that one can do without. A nation cannot do without a military. Thus it is not a privilege to serve in the military. Not in the general sense anyways.
On a personal level, I can see how it can be a privilege and be rewarding, but this isn't true (so I think) on a general level.
Either way, it's semantics and not really the purpose of this thread.
I agree that it's really not the purpose of the thread, but I believe that the "privilegeness" of military service is relevant to the discussion, and thus may be addressed without straying from the subject.
It's one thing to say that it is not a privilege to serve. It is quite another to say that it is not a privilege for a country to have a military, infering that it is thus, not a privilege for an individual to serve. I still believe that it is a privilege to serve your country in the military, though I do agree that it is not what you would call a privilege for a country to have a military.