Ideally, nobody should ever be told by the government that they are required to take up arms. If I were alive during the Vietnam war, I probably would have been on the side of protestors saying Uncle Sam shouldn't be forsing people to fight and die for a cause they don't support.Being drafted means you don’t have a choice… I’m not talking about joining, I’m talking about being drafted.
But hypothetically, yes. If conscription ever comes back, I'd say the "selection" of the "Selective Service" should be made from the set of all people who can reasonably be expected to serve. I know a lot of women who are outstanding managers and strategy directors who would make outstanding ranking officers and strategic decision makers in the military. And if women aren't excluded from service in the first place, maybe we'll be less likely to ever need a draft again.
But none of that has anything to do with judging and labeling people, or justifying double standards based on your own biases.
If someone has a kid who's slightly dyslexic, or somewhere on the autism spectrum, I suppose it's totally ok for their teachers to say, "no you're not! If you can't read at your grade level, you're retarded. This is America and there's no gray area. We call anyone with different learning needs retards here, because I said so. Not that there's anything wrong with being a retard!"
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