I meant my post here to be understood (though I can see how it might not be) that if a woman is equally capable to take up arms and defend her country, it's not my place to stand in her way.It is my place, however, to say...
1. No one should have to die for his or her county, and if the human race started acting its age we wouldn't have debates like this.
2. Introducing women to combat also introduces unfortunate complications the enemy will exploit (like sexual abuse of women prisoners, our human inclination to shudder more deeply at cruelty against women, etc; if you can imagine it, it will happen.)
3. Women will go to war, and many will die, and we who sit back and debate these matters will not know any more about the real horrors of war than we do now. We'll wrap it in the flag and honor the fallen as heroes and give the next crop of politicians the tools they need to ensure oil supplies or test preparedness and new weaponry.
Instead of applauding the willingness to send women off to die we should be electing leaders who solve problems without costing lives - ours our anyone else's.
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Started: 2013-01-29
The instinct for conquest and military adventure seems woven into the very substance of our being. I think it is doubtful that we, as a species, will ever escape it.
ReplyDeleteWe have eyes in the front of our heads. We are descended from predators. I would have to agree we are wired to kill, but we have the tools to reprogram ourselves. We don't yet have the tools to gain consensus that this is a good thing.
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