(November 20, 2018 at 10:10 pm)Tres Leches Wrote:(November 20, 2018 at 11:02 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: Right now, ONLY men have to register, (in the US) when they are 18, or they can't get student loans or government employment.
Yeah, they still do that. Only men.... blatant discrimination. The first thing that has to happen, is that everyone should do something.
They don't then, have to all volunteer for combat.
You're conflating selective service/ conscription with volunteering to serve.
But, sure, I'm in favor of having women required to register for selective service when they're 18. The US hasn't had a draft in over 40 years and it has little chance of being resurrected so it would be symbolic, anyway.
It could, however, help women gain equality in other arenas of US society and it's about damn time for that. So yeah, bring on selective service.
-Teresa
I actually "conflating" nothing. I am well aware of the difference.
I suggested everyone should be required to serve, and if people want only volunteers FROM the already serving "everyone" set, then fine.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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