E.g., immigrants that naturalize have to put a *lot* of effort into naturalization; as a result, they’re usually much more personally invested in their civic life, on average, than typical citizens.

Civic Life: The public life of the citizen concerned with the affairs of the community and nation.

Person above me is talking about community building as well.

The second half of your comment seems disconnected from the first? We are specifically talking about mandatory military service for community building.

Hope this makes you feel better :)

And that justifies anything?

Mandatory military service teaches you how kill. Why not build communities by having 1 year social working instead, certainly that teaches you more about your community.

Correct, and you play banjo and drink from rivers of Bourbon.

Iirc we can use emoji now, so Sys🎶 is a valid option.

Their internal polling indicated 100% of people drink pen ink ¯\(ツ)/¯