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Originally Posted by jonbxx
Asked my 15 year old what she thought about this idea. Her response was ‘fruity’ and robust 
(that said, she volunteers every week as a Junior Cub Scout Leader already) |
The thing that’s most irritating about this proposal is that it deliberately refuses to engage with the fact that a good number of young people do actually do useful community volunteering already. The proposal bluntly states that national service (the community rather than the military variant) must be in addition to whatever else the young person has got going on.
I’m not remotely bothered about the practicalities of that because as we all know, this will never happen. The thing that appalls me is the mean-spiritedness evident in the very idea. It really is just brazen in its nastiness towards one part of society in pursuit of the approval of another.