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Let's put it it this way: a culture that either still has or only recently eliminated conscription would see it as a good thing to be a bit prepared for that.
Don't help much with instinctive decision-making, but there are other things, such as long-term planning.
Training people with guns has effects that go beyond just being useful in the case of war.
How do ethic courses help with long-term planning?
I am confused how even guns come here. I hope you don't imagine a military as a hunter band where personal weapons are the most important aspect. Rather it is largely about installing a hivemind, overcoming chaos and what I had in mind is scout / pioneer kind of stuff which can be seen as a premilitary.
Such as choosing professions for prestige vs. social utility / altruism value. Even though ethics courses cannot override instinctive feelings they ought to have an effect on carefully thought out plans like this. If you spend hours and hours wondering whether pimping around an BMW X7 should be one of your long-time goals or not, perhaps something a teacher said about zero-sum goals may have an effect.
Why?
Did you change anyone's plans considering buying a BMW X7 by telling them about zero-sum games?
Just because a game is zero sum in total does not make it irrational for an individual to compete. That in fact is the big problem.