A man in South Korea was sentenced to 18 months in prison for trying to avoid military service
  • dlpkl@lemmy.world
    262·
    9 months ago

    What kinda toilet-brewed crack are their courts smoking? How is being against warfare discounted because you like competitive video game lmfao? So can you be charged with reckless driving just because you play Mario Kart?

    • Hubi@feddit.de
      93·
      9 months ago

      Conservative logic.

      “Video games turn you into a killer.” -> “Now that you got the chance you don’t want to kill IRL? Go to jail, hypocrite.”

  • Dasnap@lemmy.world
    19·
    9 months ago

    Bloody hell, I thought this was a Hard-Drive or Onion article.

    If courts thought I agreed with the subjects of the games I play then I’d be in multiple jails.

    I mean, ‘No Russian’ alone…

  • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    16·
    9 months ago

    appearently a year in military turned into a year in jail which srguably is better if you are against war, this man is. This is absolutely inhumane though qnd makes me wonder what I will have to do when I am done with uni (my country has mandatory service too)

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 months ago

      South Korea has never had a good track record when it comes to conscientious objectors. A year in jail might seem preferable, but in the past employers could see if a person had been convicted and imprisoned and this greatly reduced employment options. I don’t know if that’s true today, but the social stigma can be great.

      In fact it’s only been recently (2018) that the SK Supreme Court ruled that being a conscientious objectors wasn’t a crime, and is justifiable grounds to refrain from military service. Prior to that the only recourse for objectors remaining in Korea was jail time, often with punitive sentences double the length of required military service, or even longer. (I’m familiar anecdotally with one instance where an objector was sentenced, imprisoned, and upon release was drafted again, sentenced and re-imprisoned, and subjected to this treatment for over ten years.) When it comes to human rights SK is slowly improving, but it is not anywhere near Western European levels yet.

      I’m sorry you have to deal with this as well. Remain true to your convictions, yours may be the case that changes your countries laws, and if not, you will keep your personal integrity

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    11·
    9 months ago

    I’m pretty extreme when it comes to pacifism, and always have been. But I must’ve killed tens of thousands of people in games, including very gory ones.