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Amnesty International needs to highlight that a small nation-state like Finland has to do this kind of thing to remain independent. But the civil service does smell because it sounds like a false alternative. You can't really refuse conscription, if you do, you'll just be conscripted elsewhere. You can choose between mud (or snow) and an office, but you're going to serve the state either way or go to jail.

It's similar to land taxes. You may have a property, but try refusing to pay the land tax to see how yours it really is. Of course, you are only forced to serve once, for a year or so, unless there's a war, I guess, while the tax will be there year after year after year.

I have a final question: can you apply for civil service in Santa's workshop?