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You largely can choose the provider of this service, but they will also choose you (or not).
And you can not refrain from the service while being in the community of those that don't refrain. In practice there are (nearly) no places where the community as a whole chooses to refrain.
If you're in a country with compulsory military service, make yourself interesting for other countries and leave.
Really? I'm from the Middle East, took me fucking ages to "change the provider".
Literally not an option for 99% of people.
Yes, most people are not interesting. True for Emi/Imi-gration as well as dating. And in both cases it's tough to hear.
that‘s a bunch of false equivalences