It does make sense and the issue here isn’t communal service periods but for making it only the young which “by chance” makes it so almost everyone who had any hand in it wouldn’t have to do it ever.
If it were every citizen had to do some form of labor for some period I don’t think anyone would have much of an argument.
When it hits their wallet same as always. What actually got is civil rights? Stopping enough business that businesses said enough let them have it so we can get back to work. That said that was back when pinks would get openly shot at and bombed.