I mostly think the case for the military breaking you as a person is that the state has a legitimate use of violence case to make you become the type of person to be willing to sacrifice your agency and civilian moral instincts so you can literally and more efficiently kill for the greater good.
I’m not confident that this reason is good enough, but it currently seems more likely than not.
However, I don’t buy that other reasons to break people are sufficiently analogous (not saying the military is the only legitimate reason).
I mostly think the case for the military breaking you as a person is that the state has a legitimate use of violence case to make you become the type of person to be willing to sacrifice your agency and civilian moral instincts so you can literally and more efficiently kill for the greater good.
I’m not confident that this reason is good enough, but it currently seems more likely than not.
However, I don’t buy that other reasons to break people are sufficiently analogous (not saying the military is the only legitimate reason).