Debate: Should National Service be mandatory for all male singaporeans?
Side: Yes, it should be mandatory.

I think that National Service should be mandatory. In NS, they can not only learn to be fit physically, but also fit mentally. With fit mentally i mean discipline, teamwork, perseverance and resillience. Men are physically fitter than women, and they will have to take up the task of protecting their country, their family and friends should Singapore get invaded and attacked one day. In NS, they have to abide to strict rules, like having to wake up early in the morning, just like @MyDebateNub had said, that Signaporeans are labelled as "The Strawberry Generation" by many, one of the reasons to be the current level of technology allows the people to do things online without having to move from one place to another or with just a click on the mouse, we can buy things from other countries. Another reason could be as Singapore's economy is going stronger and better, hence many families have better finances, and many families are getting maids to do their housework and things so this generation of men and women are getting lazier. I have even read an article that some foreign pupils who are studying in Singapore are quite shocked when they saw that some Singaporeans don't even know how to do household chores. This is even more of the reason why they should have compulsory National Service. To train them to be more independent without the help of maids, technology and such. Some men complain that going to NS is a torture, a waste of time and a horrible "nightmare". Then, if NS is not compulsory, there will be definitely a huge decline in enrolment for the NS. Then, who will know when another country will just suddenly sttack Singapore? By that time, won't all the men no matter they have gone to NS or not, have to go out and fight to protect their country? Will they even win against the other countries who have bigger number of trained army forces with only their small amount of trained men? That is, a really small chance. By the time, the men who do not go NS and train, how will they be able to protect their families and loved ones?Everyone in Singapore has good education, we all learn of a lot of things and have knowledge. However, could one with lots of knowledge yet little physical abilities just use wit to beat the enemies with weapons? Or do they just stand there and get scared out of their wits? Training strictly and "torturously" allows the men to become more mature and not be just a "frog in the well" who has never seen the reality of the world outside. No enemy is so kind to do things our way. If one just uses textbook knowledge and try to "talk their way out", (no offense) but they will just get killed or blasted out of their way. In conclusion, NS should be mandatory to train the men to be better, since they are "gifted" with a better physical fitness which some women might be really envious of (like me, for example). If women had been blessed with better physical fitness than men, then going to NS to train and to protect the country, I for one will not complain. However, since the men are the ones who are fitter physically, the ones who complain of exhuastion and things, they have to train even more to mature and drum into their heads that they are the ones most capable of protecting the country.