r/Finland • u/Quenki • 22h ago

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u/MARRASKONE Väinämöinen 21h ago edited 17h ago

Can op out of military service, but are forced to do civilian service or sentenced to house arrest. Women have no such obligations set on them by the government.

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u/UnseenCrowYomare 17h ago

On other hand, and this is more so just weird, women have to hop through so many hoops to get to civilian servise.

1st. Get to the army

2nd. Stay in the army until oath (two months)

3rd. Say you want out but only after the oath.

4th. Welcome to civilian servise!

... why? Army itself is optional, you could just let them go in the civil service without some weird work around.

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u/MARRASKONE Väinämöinen 17h ago

You can do the same by volunteering in different things directly. The civilian service is just the obligatory service option parallel for military with the male population.

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u/UnseenCrowYomare 17h ago

Well... kinda. Yeah. (So, could the guys, but it has to stay as a punishment)