How would you vote ...

[Zanas]

I would guess this dates back to the days when Austria was just next to the Iron Curtain. Somehow they haven't found the time or motivation to withdraw it until now.

[Zanas]

We have that day here in France, called the "Defence preparation calling day", it's kind of boring but allows to get some statistics about every 18-year-old, boys and girls, and see if some slipped through the whole scholar system without learning proper reading or writing (and there always are some too). We stopped drafting in 1996, one of the very few things Chirac is known positively for...

[Zanas]

I would support abolishing it in Austria, here in Israel it is still necessary though.

I fail to see how it could be necessary in one country and abolishable in another, and how one could have geographically varying values and convictions, but maybe that's just me...

[Zanas]

Did I say something about having or not an army ? That is totally irrelevant to what we're discussing, and I think you're doing this on purpose.

To get back on our topic, death penalty is not more justified in certain circumstances in certain countries. Either you support it, believe in it, and I don't see why you would let it be abolished in some cases, or you don't support it, and nothing justifies it.

I don't trust people with geometrically variable beliefs...

[Zanas]

Why on earth is the Red-Green Alliance in favor of the draft ? O_o

[Zanas]

Well I'll be damned...