Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds

So many comments and sentiments in this thread are really not worthy of HN.

Your comment specifically, I believe, falls short of the ideal to get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic becomes more divisive.

We should probably avoid posting shallow dismissals and remember that a good critical comment teaches us something.

Additionally, as your comment leaves readers wondering which parts of the divided comment section you deem "worthy of HN" and which you do not, I cannot help but think of this ambivalence as a method to spark reactions. Another word for this method would be "to bait", I think.

What is the HN ethos anyway? The "common thought" and average HNer was different in 2007, 2015, 2025, and will be again rather different in 2035.

One could say the "hacker ethics", love of freedom, tinkering goes beyond time, but this falls apart at any topic beyond that.