Not sure if this is think kind of thing you’re looking for, but just throwing some thoughts out there...
If the service is mandatory, why does it present a moral dilemma?
If you’re in the military because you are required to be, it seems highly unlikely that that’s where you would have ended up if you’d just done a broad search for where you can do the most good. So analyzing the utilitarian good of service seems like privileging the hypothesis.
It seems to me like you should think about it as a requirement that you need to get through, and that you should make the best of it while you’re there. I’d think that the main way Utilitarian or EA thoughts would come into it is that you’d be thinking about how to best set up the rest of your career after military service to do the most good you can.
Not sure if this is think kind of thing you’re looking for, but just throwing some thoughts out there...
If the service is mandatory, why does it present a moral dilemma?
If you’re in the military because you are required to be, it seems highly unlikely that that’s where you would have ended up if you’d just done a broad search for where you can do the most good. So analyzing the utilitarian good of service seems like privileging the hypothesis.
It seems to me like you should think about it as a requirement that you need to get through, and that you should make the best of it while you’re there. I’d think that the main way Utilitarian or EA thoughts would come into it is that you’d be thinking about how to best set up the rest of your career after military service to do the most good you can.
Thank you, but this is not relevant to my situation. I do have possible choices to make in which these dilemmas are an integral part.