National Service - How can this be amended or improved further to alleviate the problem of dodging?

National Service is a waste of time and effort to many Singaporean males, taking 2 years of their youth away to do something that is to them not fruitful. They could have gone to college or even start working to ensure a brighter and stable future, rather than needing to learn how to strip a rifle or endure physical training which would not be useful in their ideal future. Still, there are those who have stronger feelings against NS because they do not even like Singapore, they do not want to live here. Perhaps it's due to the kind of lifestyle or politics in Singapore, nevertheless, they do not see why they must serve the country if they do not even treat this country as their home.

The government's approach to make people think that being loyal to the country and giving back to society is a very noble quality is not effective because humans do not all feel that good values make them greater, but all humans are only concerned with how they are benefited. So a better way to reduce the problem of the dodging of NS is to show how it is essential for the survival of the community and in turn relate it to how it positively affects the individual.

Another method of the government which is not very effective is how it tries to instil patriotic feelings through songs that are not based with evidences at all. For example, the song "Home" the national day song in 1998, in the lyrics ther is "this is home, surely, where i know i must be". For those people who are not the least bit patriotic towards Singapore, this surely doesn't provide them with a stronger reason to not think so. To reduce the amount of people who do not like Singapore, it has to be shown to them that Singapore is a wonderful place to live in better than others, unique in good ways, then they would be more willing to stay.

National Service, compulsory for all Singaporean males, will increasingly be evaded if we leave the situation as it is, since Singaporeans will not remain this guilible forever to be easily brainwashed by such cheap tricks.