[jimmaswell]

> “humans have had a visceral reaction to the killing of women and children specifically in war, across millennia and across cultures, but surely such thinking is obsolete in our generation.”

This sounds pretty much right at least as far as men vs women, though. If you truly want equal rights then that should come with equal privileges. Historically or evolutionarily, women were valued more in such a situation because they make babies - now, so what, we're clearly not running out of babies if you look at population trends. Either everyone fit to serve should have to stay or nobody should have to stay, not based on the circumstances of their birth.

[xyzzyz]

Ukrainians are very much running out of babies, desperately so in fact. Average Ukrainian woman has just 1.2 babies on average. You cannot make up for that shortage with Nigerian babies (of which the supply is high) any more than you can make up Ukrainian war casualties with Russian settlers moving in — or, I guess, you can, if you don’t care about Ukraine as a nation in the slightest.