Gregory's ServerI'm not sure you can describe that as volunteering.
Legally speaking, 12 year olds are not capable of giving consent.
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 @Remittancegirl @Yendolosch "Legally speaking" and "in the Third Reich" are two phrases that don't belong on the same continent. (They had conscription, no age limit. Their solution to conscientious objectors was a firing squad. The law was whatever the führer decreed. IIRC the youngest "soldiers" in May 1945 were just eight years old ...)  Indeed. I was just unwilling to go along with the implication that somehow 12 year olds get held morally responsible for being child soldiers or that their deaths are to be celebrated. |
@Remittancegirl @cstross
> Legally speaking, 12 year olds are not capable of giving consent.
True. I guess the grown-ups were busy with all the indoctrinating and recruiting and total-war-waging, so the part where they ask the lawyers somehow got overlooked... and anyone arguing with a fanatical Sturmbannführer about "rule of law" and "separation of powers" and "free press" at _that_ point would get shot.
Better start _before_ 12-year olds are volunteering to run at tanks with hand grenades.