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Public Service and Government Regulation |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY DO WE WANT? |
| Author: Morton A. Kaplan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2004 |
| Size: 1,093 Words, 6,434 Characters |
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Alan Dowd has written a profound article that espouses the value of public service. I share with him an aversion to extreme demands for rights and entitlements in favor of a concept of shared values and commitments. I agree that restricting the concept of public service to government service is too narrow. However, although Dowd's broad definition of public service is correct, it tends to obscure the fact that some forms of service are more integral to social membership than others, a subject to which I shall return.
Although correctly stressing the value of voluntary decisions, Dowd carries this principle beyond practical limits. He even objects to the remission of government loans as recompense for service as a form of coercion. But coercion has an appropriate role in ensuring that im...
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...he Swiss, independently of payment and career training. In the absence of a strong sense of commitment that leads those from all backgrounds to volunteer for dangerous service in wars, a draft is desirable and may be necessary in some circumstances. It undermines the health and safety of a nation if those who serve feel that they have become dupes of the rich, the powerful, or the indifferent.
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