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This is only for citizen not refugees/immigrants so both MEA and NA folks can chill.
Why aren't refugees/immigrants conscripted over citizens?
More British Muslims joined ISIS than the British military. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/her-majestys-jih...>
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So while many of the reasons are questionable (understatement of the year), let’s focus on the last one. After America lost the war in Vietnam, what happened to those neighboring nations? Did they suffer from Vietnamese communists? The only Vietnamese intervention was in Cambodia, and hardly anyone thinks that wasn’t the right thing to do.
The OP said it was not for “defence.” I am arguing the reasons were for the defense of American interests. That is objectively true.
With your logic, Russia is also acting in a defensive manner.
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So what's your proposed solution? Not have a military and just roll over when someone decides to attack you?
My proposed solution is understanding what this scene means: In front of a blood-stained chessboard littered with mutilated chess pieces finely dine two royal couples - black and white - cheering their endgame.
Buckle tf up.
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In 2006, the Federal Administrative Court justified the absence of compulsory military service for women in a ruling, citing, among other reasons, that women face greater burdens in the domestic sphere than men and that this alone would justify their exemption from military service obligations. So military service is seen as a service like healthcare and care services where women already do most of the work, mostly p…
> unpaid Right, completely unpaid, which is why most women are homeless and starving on the street.
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How about we just don’t fight stupid wars? There hasn’t been a real need for a draft in America since the civil war (in the sense that America was not plausibly threatened by the world wars, Korea, Vietnam, etc).
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I would define feminism as the belief that on balance and in aggregate, there is a difference in the fairness that society accords to the genders and it's in favor of men. The risk to feminism would be that this becomes so blatantly and obviously not true that no one can take it seriously. I don't think the continued draft of men would impact this because it's not a change to the status quo, and it isn't changing opi…
> and it's in favor of men. Definitely going to have to disagree there.
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> unpaid Right, completely unpaid, which is why most women are homeless and starving on the street.
Right, completely unpaid, which is why most women who take care of family members don’t acquire any pension and social security benefits for that work. That’s why many of them don’t have the time for a full time paid job and either work part time or don’t have a job at all.